Bukiewicz, Marcin: Moral Border

This paper proposes the Moral Border — the structural asymmetry between a formation's internal moral code and its treatment of the outgroup — as a conditioning variable in the historical persistence of expansionist ideologies and social formations. The concept is distinguished from dehumanization and in-group favoritism: the Border operates at the level of normative architecture rather than individual psychology, and characteristically coexists with an intensified internal ethical code. A typolo