Industry claims that plots force violence are a transparent rationalization.

Evidence

One of the more candid script writers dismissed the asserted dramatic necessity for violence as analogous to saying, “I never put cotton in a wagon that’s not prepared for cotton but I never use anything but a cotton wagon” (Baldwin & Lewis, 1972). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 866

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 866
• XREF: connects to: Relativizing definitions let TV executives deny that machine-gunning counts as violence — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 844; TV producers justified violence by appealing to a fabricated frontier myth
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Relativizing definitions let TV executives deny that machine-gunning counts as violence — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 844; TV producers justified violence by appealing to a fabricated frontier myth