From its enlightened past, the modern world inherited the moral imperative to reduce human suffering anywhere in the world, with violence and cruelty when necessary.2 To understand how compassion and violence, benevolence and cruelty could be intimately intertwined, one may study practices of European colonizing missions which enfolded the native violently, with an idealist benevolence to better her lot in the eyes of God or of History, understood, of course, progressively.

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反人类思维

从其开明的过去，现代世界继承了减少世界任何地方人类苦难的道德义务，必要时使用暴力和残忍。2 要了解同情和暴力、仁慈和残忍如何密切交织，可以研究欧洲的实践。殖民使命强烈地包围了当地人，带着一种理想主义的仁慈，以改善她在上帝或历史眼中的命运，当然，逐渐理解。