Explaining inhumane conduct alongside moral conduct is the harder test of moral theory

Evidence

A full understanding of morality must explain not only how people come to behave morally, but also how they can behave inhumanely and still retain their self-respect and feel good about themselves. The latter part of the story on the exercise of moral agency presents the tougher explanatory challenge. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 50

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Explaining morality as mere authority leaves its ultimate origin unexplained — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 126