Crimes against impersonal systems are treated as legal matters, not 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

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the earlier chapter’s treatment of how victims’ humanity or anonymity calibrates moral arousal; relevant to concepts of corporate victimhood.