Framing choices as dichotomous crises makes frightened people abandon moral and privacy concerns

Evidence

The projected human threat was personalized, immense, and pervasive because a “dirty” bomb (combining conventional explosives with radioactive dispersants) could be smuggled into any city and detonated. No one was safe any longer from a nuclear strike. The clear choice in this humanitarian crisis: responsible preventive military offensive or international timidity. In the bleak contrast of dichotomous options frightened people are willing to forfeit privacy for safety. They also give low priority to moral considerations and potential international repercussions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2354

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2354