Divided labor disperses responsibility so nobody feels like a killer

Evidence

Secondly, all those people partake of the act of killing, but no one is (or, rather, needs to feel) a killer. At no point is there but one trigger to be pulled by one finger. As Johnson puts it, ‘members of the deathwatch team referred to themselves… as simply “the team”.’ Working in ‘the team’ is salutary; it is the team that kills without making any of its members a killer. Johnson quotes one warden’s words: ‘We can honestly say that we did not do it.’ Responsibility, as Hannah Arendt observed, is floating. And a floating responsibility is nobody’s responsibility. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Arendt’s ‘floating responsibility’ and Eichmann’s banality connect to how modern bureaucracies execute exclusionary policy without any single accountable actor. — connects to: Rule over laborers produces totalitarian loneliness rather than mere isolation; Functional division of labour makes individual acts multifinal and morally meaning-void — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 292; Systemic complexity disperses responsibility so no individual is originator of an action

Related

• Functional division of labour makes individual acts multifinal and morally meaning-void (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Systemic complexity disperses responsibility so no individual is originator of an action #corroborates (0.90)
• Functional division of labour makes individual acts multifinal and morally meaning-void #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 292