Genocide is mostly committed by ordinary people in banal bureaucratic contexts

Evidence

The evidence suggested that many, if not most, instances of genocide and mass murder, are not committed by people with depraved, deranged, or pathological personalities, but rather by quite ordinary people placed in extraordinary, yet “banal” bureaucratic situations (Kelman & Hamilton, 1988; Staub, 1989). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 150

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘banality of evil’ conclusion mirrors techniques-of-neutralization themes in the reader’s criminology/sacrifice sources about how atrocity becomes routinized. — connects to: Bureaucratic ‘doing’ orientation enables genocide without personal hatred of victims. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1809
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 150