Moral justification in media, not fantasy confusion, drives aggression adoption

Evidence

The problem is not the failure to distinguish between fantasy and reality but the media’s construction of a reality in which the exercise of control by aggressive means is morally justified and glamorized. Investing aggression with moral and functional value increases viewers’ willingness to adopt it. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 889

Categorization

• XREF: Core mechanism: when aggression is framed as morally justified, people adopt it — this is the psychological bridge to vault claims on Islamophobic/racist policy rationalization. — connects to: Media harm comes from moral glamorization of violence, not reality confusion
• ADDENDUM: Could support a piece on how moral framing (not ignorance) converts political violence into acceptable policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 889