Individual responsibility is the argument of neoliberalism. If you want to change the world you need to focus on society and how it interfaces with individuals.

I could also flip your argument over on to you and say that by defining these individuals as human beings, you are giving license to their kind of behaviour. If there’s no moral damnation to being a king or a billionaire, then they are role models to be emulated. In reality, they are impoverished souls who need to cling to material wealth in order to have any self worth, and they see your material poverty as an indication of your lack of inherent worth.

I have no idea what argument it is that you think you’re flipping. I’m not making a moral argument, I’m simply explaining the obvious categories that exist. That informs morality, but I haven’t appealed to morality at all yet.

Also, your moral argument fails immediately because it’s completely the reverse of the truth. If they’re not human, there’s no moral judgment to be made. I don’t hold a trained attack dog morally accountable for biting me. I hold its master accountable, because the dog doesn’t have moral reasoning abilities.

By calling them inhuman, you are absolving them of their “sin” as you call it, and you are absolving yourself of any responsibility to do the hard work of reasoning morally or objectively about this situation.

The simple reality is that they are human, and turning to outright bloodshed as a solution will not create a better society. The guillotine is the tool of the bourgeois, liberal revolution, and it presaged the neoliberal hellscape we live in now. Look into the history of the French revolution. Look at the environment of abject terror the newly forming government existed in, because they thought the individual purity of their rulers was an important aspect of their new society, and they kept executing one another. Nobody can be expected to make a better world in such conditions. Simple violence is the solution an adolescent comes up with. It doesn’t work.

All that is required to is to disarm them. They aren’t demons, they’re not vampires, they won’t haunt us and destroy us if we let them live.

Plus, watching them attempt to adapt to a life of moderation and no power to dominate and kill their fellow humans, to face the fact that they are human after all… I think that would be incredibly interesting.