Anonymized members receive harsher treatment from leaders

Evidence

Leadership can proceed with much greater inconsiderateness and indifference to individual wishes and capacities of persons who appear only as numbers and who may not be known by their personal names even to the other members (which at least occurred in groups similar to the Clan-na-gael), than it can if the group includes each member as a personal entity. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 8994

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the morality-of-interchangeability theme: de-individualized functionaries (as in Arendt/Shapiro-style analysis) can treat persons with greater ruthlessness than personnel they must face personally.