Collective moral disengagement is an emergent group property, not a sum of individuals

Evidence

Therefore, collective moral disengagement is not simply the aggregation of the moral exonerations of its individual members operating in isolation. It is an emergent group-level property arising from interactive, coordinative, and synergistic group dynamics (Bandura, 2000). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 686

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the mechanism: emergence via group dynamics distinguishes the collective from merely additive individual exonerations.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 686
• XREF: connects to: Collective values arise through institutions, not from atomized preference sums — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 312; Collective psyches cannot develop self-awareness, so institutions stay morally blind; Group moral disengagement exceeds the sum of individual members’ mind-sets (+1 more)