Each global warming negotiating bloc felt exonerated by its own comparison

Evidence

Developing countries, in turn, rejected caps on their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that global warming is a problem that the rich, industrialized countries created, so they should be the ones to cut their emissions. They asked why countries striving to modernize should stifle their economic and industrial growth for a problem that was not of their making. From their perspective, they argued, they have the same right to modernize their societies and raise their people’s standard of living as did the rich, industrialized countries. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2661

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s prior material on how both sides of moral panics over dress/identity feel righteous about their own position — same mutual self-exoneration dynamic.
• DEFINE: Shows advantageous comparison functioning when both parties frame themselves as the aggrieved party, each displacing blame onto the other.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2661