Disturbed individuals’ violent action depends mainly on self-regulatory ability to contain grievances

Evidence

Countless loners with bizarre beliefs do harbor resentments, but fortunately the vast majority conduct their lives as best they can without acting on those beliefs. However, some who lead bleak, despondent lives with festering grievances, conspiratorial attributions for their personal failures, and radical ideological beliefs can be provoked by precipitating events to act violently on their grievances. Whether or not disturbed individuals act violently will depend, in large part, on their self-regulatory ability to keep their psychological troubles in check. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1283

Categorization

• QUESTION: This cuts against the moral-exoneration framing — Bandura concedes mental disturbance genuinely matters, worth reconciling with the exoneration thesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1283
• XREF: connects to: Conformity can intensify violence beyond what any individual would initiate alone. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 372