If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of their makeup, then by focusing on their good part, we humanize them. By acknowledging and attending to and rewarding their good part, we allow it to grow, like a small flower in a desert.


Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty (ed. Penguin UK, 2011) - ISBN: 9780718193348

Simon Baron-Cohen Quotes

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it ...

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it ...

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it ...

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it ...