Countermeasures must target the specific locus where moral disengagement occurs
Evidence
As this book demonstrates, strategies designed to curb disengagement of morality from harmful practices must be tailored to the locus at which moral control is disengaged. This is a fruitful avenue of future research. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2984
Categorization
- QUESTION: What would locus-specific interventions actually look like in practice — e.g. humanization vs. responsibility vs. consequence vs. agency targeting?
- SEED: An essay on why anti-cruelty campaigns fail: they preach against the wrong disengagement locus (e.g. blaming individuals where diffused responsibility is the real mechanism).