Moral crusaders can compartmentalize their morality to one sphere while harming people elsewhere

Evidence

Dubbed “Mr. Clean,” Keating founded Citizens for Decency through Law, an additional vehicle in this effort that enlisted a large national following. In ironic moral detachment from the suffering he caused countless people, Keating voiced concern over the growing societal erosion of morality: “The moral fiber of our nation seems to be rapidly unraveling.” … He excluded himself as an exemplar of this ethical decline, but this was not a case of superficial hypocrisy. Keating deeply invested morality in the pornography sphere but disengaged it from the financial suffering he inflicted on his clients. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1422

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: the psychology of selective moral outrage, and how the most vocal moral crusaders are often those most blind to adjacent harm they personally cause.