Moral conflict restrains discrimination mainly in face-to-face contexts

Evidence

The passages between the stages had one striking feature in common. They all increased the physical and mental distance between the purported victims and the rest of the population – the perpetrators and the witnesses of the genocide alike. In this quality resided their inherent rationality from the point of view of the final destination, and their effectiveness in bringing the task of destruction to its completion. Evidently, moral inhibitions do not act at a distance. They are inextricably tied down to human proximity. Commitment of immoral acts, on the contrary, becomes easier with every inch of social distance. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 546 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Binding moral constraints depend on social integration, not abstract principle — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1648; Higher moral development correlates with lower prejudice; Defensive moral disengagement after in-group wrongdoing is not universal or deterministic — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2151 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral inhibitions do not act at a distance and depend on proximity #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 546