Abstraction into a category suspends ordinary ethical rules for that category’s members.

Evidence

The overall effect of abstraction is that rules routinely followed in personal interaction, ethical rules most prominent among them, do not interfere when handling of a category is concerned and every entity is classified into that category just for the circumstance of having been so classified. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 421

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanistically grounds how category-membership overrides personal ethics — analogous to the identity/categorical logics discussed elsewhere in the vault.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 421