Do you know what it is like to feel less than human?
No, probably not. It's probably not an experience most would have so my question has no real meaning if you don't. To explain it, imagine that your sense of self is lost for awhile. What you are is less than what I am. You, on a fundamental level, are less than me. Can you understand that? Maybe you have to experience it. I think everyone does to some degree. There are crimes that do it. Crimes against humanity. Crimes that are so bad they are an affront to all humans. People do things that all humans should stand up and take notice of. Yet most people don't because they don't understand it. Instead they relegate the feelings of such people to things they can understand. Simplify the feelings into soap opera-level emotions so that you understand it. A complicated and deep feeling is made into something that belongs in Gossip Girl. Imagine having a feeling like that diminished by everyone, people who have no idea of that feeling at all. If you don't understand just know that it makes the orginial crime that much worse. Like someone calling a rape an unimportant incident that should be overlooked given the passage of some amount of time. As if months going by changes that feeling. If your feelings are so shallow that they change in so little time, perhaps you don't have them at all. Perhaps it is better not to have them and we can all be made of the same stuff as the people on tv. Probably, this all makes sense to no one. Can you understand that you are by nature less than me? And if this makes sense to no one, it doesn't matter because judgements are made on feelings without experiencing them. A higher awareness is not found and therefore I probably just sound like an emo or something. But unless you think you would find no trouble with your basic humanity being put into question, consider that perhaps you don't understand all feelings in the world. Consider that love/hate/nothing is not where it ends. Then consider what you would do if you were made to be less than me. Then imagine explaining it to someone else.