Geographic distance from production removes consumers’ incentive to inspect harms

Evidence

The necessities of life are produced by faceless proxy workers in far-off places. As long as consumers’ daily needs are met, they have little incentive to examine the humaneness of the working conditions, the level of pollution caused by production processes, or the costs exacted on the environment to produce, ship, and market the profusion of goods and the disposal of wastes. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2528

Categorization

• XREF: The spatial-displacement mechanism parallels Bandura’s own concept of displaced responsibility and echoes the reader’s vault claims about ordinary people rationalizing harm through invisibility.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2528