SOC 4010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Utopia, Gun Control, Steven Pinker

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Final exam notes: how does the creation of a utopian ideology facilitate genocide? (ch. 6 & class) Utopian creeds that submerge individuals into moralized categories may take root in powerful regimes and engage their full destructive right. For this reason it is ideologies that generate the outliers in the distribution of genocide death tolls. The ideology like similar versions of christianity that came before it, and fascism and communism that would follow. Viewed its opponents as evil, existential threats that had to be eliminated in pursuit of a holy cause. It has to conform to a tidy blueprint. Those who stand out from that diminish the view of a perfect world so if we are t(cid:396)(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate a pe(cid:396)fe(cid:272)t so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:374)ot just get (cid:396)id of those (cid:449)ho (cid:862)do(cid:374)"t fit(cid:863) However the costs of creating the utopia will always be finite and the benefits will be.