Discussion and Conclusion

In this chapter, I summarize the main ideas of the analyses in Chaps. 5 and 6 and discuss the implications of these analyses. I discuss three main ideas: (1) I contrast a rhetoric of duties with a rhetoric of rights and engage in a cross-cultural comparison and its implications. (2) I discuss the concept of identification in relation to the implications of rhetorical ethics that emerged out of this study. (3) I discuss the implications of the study for civil society and conflict communication, particularly the practices of humanizing and dehumanizing rhetoric.