Species and Dehumanization

In common parlance, to be 'human' usually means to be 'fallible'.  However, to 'dehumanize' does not mean to 'treat as infallible'.  Rather, it typically connotes to 'treat as an animal', or 'as an inanimate object'.  Thus, in those cases, 'human' means something like 'self-determining', a definition to which Marx, following Kant, subscribes.  Now, another sense of the term follows from what has been previously proposed here, i. e. that to be 'human' is to be 'a part of the human species'.  On that basis, the prevalent concept of a person as distinct from its species, e. g. when as consisting in a Soul that can transcend the fate of other humans, or when as represented as the unqualified substantive, 'the individual', also dehumanizes anyone that it denotes.