Arms trafficking depends on collective moral disengagement across a network of reputable businesspeople.

Evidence

The details of Terpil’s deadly operation are especially informative because they reveal, in stark detail, that those who trade in human destruction do not do so alone. They depend heavily on the collective moral disengagement of a vast network of reputable citizens who manage respectable businesses. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2197

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how ‘respectable’ professionals launder their conscience — the chain of plausible deniability connecting gun dealers, insurers, shippers, and financiers to atrocities, each segment morally disengaged.