Bureaucratic delegation lets officials feel responsibility ends at passing evidence upward.

Evidence

Like Monsignor Lynn in Philadelphia, Cardinal Brady used displacement of responsibility as the principal mode of self-exoneration. Having passed the evidence of molestation on to his superiors, he felt that he had fulfilled his responsibility. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 501

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the reader’s existing claims about ordinary people rationalizing harmful policy through mechanisms like Cooper’s social-conservatism argument. Displacement of responsibility is the psychological mechanism being isolated. — connects to: Bureaucrats absorb blame for system-level failures they did not decide. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1325; Bureaucratic officials derive enjoyment from disavowing personal responsibility — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 100
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 501