Euphemistic language inflates public support for the death penalty

Evidence

What the execution of condemned inmates is called has social consequences. Polling for public support of executions is often based on these euphemisms. Were people shown the methods of death, the number of supporters would probably decline sharply. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1906

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault’s claim that ordinary people rationalize supporting harmful policy partly through sanitized language; mirrors how ‘complaints about immodesty’ rhetoric launders class resentment.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1906