Even speech-impaired survivors can mount moral appeals for reform.

Evidence

Gabrielle Giffords, severely impaired by a shot in the head, pleaded at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control for gun reforms (O’Keefe & Fahrenthold, 2013). “Speaking is difficult but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem… . We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now,” she said haltingly. “Be courageous. Americans are counting on you.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1315

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1315
  • XREF: connects to: Moral disengagement from in-group wrongdoing can be countered through awareness-raising communications. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 136; Extreme circumstances can force survivors to abandon their former morals; Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence.
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Moral disengagement from in-group wrongdoing can be countered through awareness-raising communications. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 136; Extreme circumstances can force survivors to abandon their former morals; Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence.

Broader Connections