A person can act virtuously and inhumanely at once while preserving self-image

Evidence

Indeed, with selective moral disengagement, the same person can be both good and bad simultaneously and even preserve a sense of moral integrity while behaving inhumanely. On one hand, Cardinal Mahony marched with César Chávez for the rights of Hispanic farm workers and championed other Hispanic causes (Goodstein, 2013b). On the other hand, he betrayed the Hispanic community by allowing the sexual abuse of children. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 530

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s own thesis (moral disengagement as selective activation) and to ordinary observations of dual behavior in public figures — parallels the ‘grateful dead’ split-self idea in moral psychology. — connects to: One can defend a public image with no authentic self behind it — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 403; Irony can function as a performed disavowal of one’s own actions — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1200
• DEFINE: Concrete instantiation of ‘selective moral disengagement’ as the capacity to compartmentalize virtue and vice.