/lit/ - Literature

>>7771340
Are you acquainted with Platonic ideals? It's that, but instead of being in another world, it's in the mind, and rather than being the true essence from which things imperfectly derive, it's an exacerbated appearance of reality, which taken as an obsession, comes to make people try to (impossibly) supplant the world with, and subordinate themselves and others to, it.

So if for example you call someone inhuman because they haven't met your quota of what it means to be human, then what you're doing is comparing them to the ideal human, to Humanity, which is a spook.