You're listening to "Our Inhuman Condition", the podcast where we shine a light onto a simple but ultimately troubling question: why do ordinary people do evil things? In this episode, we're going to look at Dehumanisation - how it happens, why it happens and how it has led to some of humanity's darkest days. To answer these questions, we're going to visit hospital wards, Trump rallies, volcanoes and chair factories (?).

You're listening to "Our Inhuman Condition", the podcast where we shine a light onto a simple but ultimately troubling question: why do ordinary people do evil things? In this episode, we're going to look at Dehumanisation - how it happens, why it happens and how it has led to some of humanity's darkest days. To answer these questions, we're going to visit hospital wards, Trump rallies, volcanoes and chair factories (?).

1. Dehumanisation

Murder has long been a part of our human condition. For Judeo-Christians, the first death was murder - Cain slew Abel. And, as Winston Churchill said, ‘The story of the human race is war". So do we all have it in us to commit violence? And what would make us - ordinary people - do evil things?

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