humanitarian reason

is a kind of reason that overlooks larger social, structural, and political conditions in favor of xx.

For Fassin, humanitarian reason draws us away from an adequate understanding of the social world and from an effective, let alone transformative politics, by simplifying and foreshortening our view of the structural and causal conditions of suffering and, through its focus on victims, by reifying the condition of victimhood, 'while ignoring their history and muting their words.' http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/the-politics-of-sacred-life

humanitarian reason, n.Definitions

humanitarian reason