Crimes against faceless systems are seen as legal rather than moral violations

Evidence

The sight of human pain and suffering makes personal crimes more morally unsettling than property crimes. Many computer crimes are directed at faceless corporate and governmental systems. These types of impersonal transgressions are more likely to be viewed as legal threats than as moral violations. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 476 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crimes against impersonal systems are treated as legal matters, not moral violations — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 476; Invisible compartmentalization, not invisibility itself, makes crimes permissible; Corporations escape criminal liability because wrongdoing is framed as agentless (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Crimes against impersonal systems are treated as legal matters, not moral violations #corroborates (0.99) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 476