Killing organizations run on subsidiary and support roles, not direct killers

Evidence

Organizations that kill do not need all individuals to participate in the most direct acts of killing; many individuals are needed to fill subsidiary and support roles. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3918

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Milgram study and to broader questions about how bureaucratic systems distribute moral responsibility for violence. — connects to: Administered organization acquires power over life and death beyond its members — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 731
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3918