Justified, rewarded, sanitized violence by admired figures strongly disinhibits aggression

Evidence

The disinhibitory power of aggressive modeling is enhanced if the perpetrators are admired figures and if the violence is socially or morally justified, it is rewarded or goes unpunished, and is portrayed in a sanitized way free of gore and suffering in its wake (Bandura, 1973; Berkowitz, 1990). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 765

Categorization

• XREF: The named disinhibiting conditions mirror exactly how state-sanctioned violence against outgroups is framed in the vault’s Islamic ‘terror’ rhetoric claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 765