Necessitarian justification allows killing without hesitation or regret

Evidence

If, under military coercion, they ended up killing their humanized foes, they would likely carry a burden of guilt. They could seek vindication in the fact that they were forced to do it, but unless it provided complete self-exoneration, they could be haunted by flashbacks of their combat activities in the trenches. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 664 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In reality, people have to justify to themselves the morality of executing a human being. They use some combination of justice, deterrents, and a dose of vengeance. If they believe that executing human beings shows respect for their humanity, that makes executions even easier to carry out. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1883 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Determinism functions primarily as an excuse mechanism against anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 254; Context makes some killing morally required rather than wrong; Sovereign violence operates without needing rational or ethical justification (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Killing humanized foes leaves guilt that coercion excuses only partially #complicates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 664
• Even executioners must morally justify killing through mixed rationales that make it easier #complicates (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1883