nostr:npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 It’s an exercise in moralistically “othering” everyone not in the “in-group”, to the extent that it allows you to remove and act contrary to all normal social obligations to those individuals.

We not only allow “them” to suffer and die in a way we would never countenance for the in-group; they *must* suffer and die as a moral lesson to the others.

Ultimately it all comes down to greed. It is all propaganda to allow the in-group to hoard their unearned wealth and power.