Moral disengagement is common in ordinary daily life, not just atrocities
Evidence
Adherence to moral principles is easier to explain than is the paradox of violating one’s moral principles without loss of self-respect while doing so. This violation can be achieved by selective disengagement of moral self-sanctions from harmful conduct. The disengagement of morality is typically cited in weighty moral predicaments and large-scale inhumanities. In point of fact, it is common in all types of moral predicaments managed by ordinary people in all walks of everyday life. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 51
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 51