Collective decision-making lets participants minimize personal responsibility for harm.

Evidence

Displacement and diffusion of responsibility were the main mechanisms of moral disengagement for those distancing themselves from the fraud. The conspiracy was the product of group decision making. This collective effort allowed individual participants to minimize their roles in the operation. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1392

Categorization

• XREF: Diffusion of responsibility under group decisions - ties to authoritarianism literature’s finding that hierarchical institutions let ordinary people avoid felt accountability for harmful policy. — connects to: Small restorative acts against vast harms serve as personal absolution for collective guilt — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1318
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1392