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These illness narratives are often not just a strategy for conceptualizing the pain of others, but also a way of reassuring ourselves that we’ll never feel that pain.

Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human:

Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: