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I find it helps, both emotionally and practically, to classify them as "human" atrocities. Because for one, this type of thing has been perpetuated by lots of cultures throughout history (medieval torture devices, for example, have entire college courses devoted to them), but more importantly, to assign atrocities to the individual culture is to take the first step down the path of seeing them as inhuman... Which, of course, is precisely the attitude that leads to these atrocities in the first place. "They" didn't do this. "We" do this to each other.
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