Dignifying a victim during killing creates a moral paradox

Evidence

Efforts to dignify execution creates a moral paradox in which offenders are being treated in a dignified way during the act of killing them. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2033

Categorization

• CANDY: The paradox of treating someone with dignity while killing them is a compact, tweetable formula.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2033
• XREF: connects to: Extermination stage killing requires that killers see victims as less than fully human — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 8; Genocide produces a moral reversal where killing itself becomes a duty. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 135