Failing to consider that people are always more than they seem is a recipe for problems. Reducing people to "just" something blinds us to the humanity of our neighbors. Christ tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. If love means anything, it requires us to regard others – to allow them to be more than “just” what they appear to be. Failure to do that, allows entire groups of people to be reduced to “illegals”, “ni**ers”, even “sinners”.
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