Executioners isolate their role through strict social silence to shield their identity.

Evidence

To begin with, they strictly compartmentalize their prison lives and home lives. They never talk at home about what they do in prison: “My life is like a switch. I turn it on when I get here and turn it off when I leave. I won’t let myself take my job home”. The compartmentalization of their worklife extends to their other social relationships as well: “We don’t speak about it and we don’t talk about what we do back there. We do our job proudly, but we don’t want to talk about it with anyone”. Social silence is motivated by the fear that being identified as an executioner is likely to change their social identities in terms of the worst prototype of an executioner. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2047

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to social-conservatism / authoritarianism research in vault on how role-holders manage stigma and license harm.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2047