Profit-Motive and De-Humanization

It is difficult to conceive how an instinct to de-humanizing behavior could be the basic human principle.  Now, as has been previously discussed, Usury de-humanizes, in more than one way.  So, just as, according to Aristotle, Chrematistic practice is not "natural", Usury is inhuman.  Furthermore, since charging Interest is extrinsic to any benefit to a borrower, it can be the manifestation of only one motivation of the lender--seeking Profit.  Thus, Profit-seeking de-humanizes the seeker, in more than one way.  But, then, it could not be the basic behavioral principle of a human.  Hence, Smith and his followers are profoundly mistaken in their thesis that it is such a principle.  The mistake is an example of a fundamental flaw of Empiricism--interpreting an observed fact as an immutable law, equivalent to interpreting a chronic disease as a 'normal' condition.  Capitalism thus reinforces the interpretation of de-humanizing behavior as 'normal'.