It seems dehumanizing at worst, awkward at best, to refer to these now-grown boys by number.

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The direct result was the kind of dehumanizing experiences we complain so much about customer service hell driven by transaction-minded policies and well-intentioned automation.

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Dr. Jonathan Newman, one of the young doctors, says he feels troubled that he's become a party to what can be a dehumanizing process in the hospital.

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"The traditional mug shot is a process (or space) where a person is automatically marked as a criminal (although not yet convicted), it is combative, accusing, dehumanizing, " says Wicks.

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The point, I think, was to humanize the entire issue on both sides, and show how the system of prohibition is slowly dehumanizing and traumatizing everyone involved in some way or another.

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