How Can Someone Practicing Genocide Maintain an Image of Being

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Essay

How can someone practicing genocide maintain an image of being a good and moral person?

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Definitions:

Cortex

The outer layer of the cerebrum of the mammalian brain, involved in various high-level brain functions such as perception, thought, memory, and decision making.

Emotion-arousing Stimulus

Any event or object in the environment that triggers a specific emotional response.

James-Lange Theory

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Cannon-Bard Theory

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.