Moral standards vary by setting and allow selective application

Evidence

The self-construction of standards is complicated, with so much diversity and inconsistency in the standards being socially prescribed and modeled. Different people adopt different standards and often do not practice what they preach. The exercise of morality involves a fair amount of selectivity and hypocrisy. Even the same individuals may adhere to different moral standards in different settings and domains of activity. For example, they may behave morally in their social relationships but transgressively on their income tax returns. In short, the standards people adopt are not merely facsimiles of what they have been taught or prescribed or have seen modeled. Rather, they are constructions based on reflections on diverse sources of morally relevant information. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 217

Categorization

• XREF: The observation that people apply different standards in different domains corroborates the vault’s claim that ordinary people compartmentalize moral objections when the target group is deservingly harmed. — connects to: Justice criteria vary with how social goods are valued, not by universal principle — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 570; Practitioners contest the application, not the divine validity, of modesty norms
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 217