Nuremberg Principles fail because victors exempt their own elites

Evidence

In an effort to deter institutionally sanctioned atrocities, the Nuremberg Principles declared that obedience to inhumane orders, even orders from the highest authorities, does not relieve subordinates of responsibility for their actions. However, victors rarely try their upper-echelon authorities as criminals. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 405

Categorization

• SEED: This asymmetry between the law’s lofty principles and its selective application could anchor an essay on how formal anti-atrocity frameworks mask the same power dynamics they claim to oppose.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 405
• XREF: connects to: Deference grants elites exemption from ordinary rules and norms — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 69; Regime collapse preserves inherited advantages for some elites — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1514; Nazi law abolished contract freedom while keeping private property, serving the rulers — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 499 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Deference grants elites exemption from ordinary rules and norms — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 69; Regime collapse preserves inherited advantages for some elites — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1514; Nazi law abolished contract freedom while keeping private property, serving the rulers — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 499 (+1 more)