Moral self-sanctions make people accountable for their actions

Evidence

With exercise of agency comes some measure of responsibility. In a cognitive and affective neuroscience that recognizes second-order control exercised through moral self-sanctions people can be held partly accountable for what they do. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 334

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 334
  • XREF: connects to: An imposed hunting rule taught its first ethical lesson in self-restraint — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 433