Legal constructs operate by bypassing the subject’s moral emotions

Evidence

Homo sacer was a legal construction. As a legal construct, it was addressed to the loyalty and discipline of law-abiding subjects, not to their beliefs and sentiments. Like all legal constructs it bypassed or suspended feelings and personal beliefs, as well as moral emotions, and as far as the required action was concerned cast them into irrelevance. The point about law is that it is expected to be obeyed whether or not the law-abiding person likes it, dislikes it, or has no feelings about it. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 705

As a legal construct, it was addressed to the loyalty and discipline of law-abiding subjects, not to their beliefs and sentiments. Like all legal constructs it bypassed or suspended feelings and personal beliefs, also moral emotions, and as far as the required action was concerned cast them into irrelevance. The point about law is that it is expected to be obeyed whether or not the law-abiding person likes it, dislikes it, or has no feelings about it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 458

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism by which law does what interpersonal morality cannot — central to how bureaucratic rates can exclude without moral friction. — connects to: Social standards penetrating the legal machine prove crueler than law; Moral emotions are dominated by punitive anger, not avoidance — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 346; Moral denunciation constrains behavior more effectively than merely procedural rules — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2517 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 705; David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 458

Broader Connections

• Moral emotions are dominated by punitive anger, not avoidance #contradicts (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 346
• Authorization, routinization, and dehumanization erode moral inhibitions against violence #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 93
• Moral denunciation constrains behavior more effectively than merely procedural rules #complicates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 2517