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The increasingly larger social groups that are banned from the social contract (post-contractualism) or do not even have access to it (pre-contractualism) become discardable populations.
Generally deliberate and willing to execute their captives, inmate hostage takers view their hostages as discardable implements to be used as long as needed.
The notion of "humanising" the savage is important to later understandings here, because the authentication of indigenous knowledge, in the early colonial context at least, meant determining what was human (and thus authentic) and what was savage or inhuman --and thus inauthentic, incomprehensible, and discardable into the inhuman ether.
 
 
 
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