Badge of Humanity

Terry Lane (11/1), there is a badge or marker for those who are humans first and foremost: our faces, unique yet universal. Babies' eyes instincively follow faces in their field of view because it's a pattern hard-wired into our brains. Try the following word-association test: riot police, executioners, Jason (from "Friday the Thirteenth"), clowns, Melanie Griffiths, stormtroopers (from "Star Wars"), bank robbers. Systematically hiding or obscuring our wonderful faces is dehumanising and scary.