The Language of Value-Neutralization

I found this in an academic article comparing the writing of Hannah Arendt - her famous essay on Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel in 1961 to Simone de Beauvoir’s “An Eye for an Eye,” on the trial of Robert Brasillach in France in 1945 referring to the Holocaust:

Eichmann’s thoughtlessness and its effects on the destruction of conditions of worldly plurality

Words can kill, it is said or to be Biblical: Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).

These words above neutralize any value judgment one can make about the most horrific act of murderous bestiality.

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