Group responsibility itself weakens moral control over harmful acts

Evidence

The exercise of moral control is also weakened when personal agency is obscured by diffusing responsibility for detrimental behavior. Any harm done by a group can always be attributed largely to the behavior of others. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 427

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 427
• XREF: connects to: Moral reactions to suffering shift when one’s own group is the responsible party. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 16