Controlling another’s acts should make one discount those acts as evidence of character

Evidence

One might expect that if an individual is the active agent controlling others’ behavior, whether that be­ havior involves expressing an opinion or anything else, then the individual will be able to fully appreciate how the constrained people cannot be judged or evaluated on the basis of their behavior. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 357

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Holding one kind of responsibility can shield actors from attribution of the other — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4003; Moral responsibility can attach to acts regardless of the actor’s intentions — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 453; Multiple consistent evil acts anchor attribution of evil to a person — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3877 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Holding one kind of responsibility can shield actors from attribution of the other #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4003
• A person’s avoidances can reveal character more than actions do #qualifies (0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1314
• Multiple consistent evil acts anchor attribution of evil to a person #complicates (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3877
• Moral responsibility can attach to acts regardless of the actor’s intentions #qualifies (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 453