Organizations can drift into evil without any member intending it

Evidence

The answer, of course, is frequently “yes.” Certainly Hitler was evil. Certainly too, the commanders of the Argentine forces who ordered the torture and killing of large segments of Argentinean society completely intended the killings they caused, and are evil. However—and this is perhaps the most disturbing element of my case—I believe that organizations can lurch toward evil, in ways not intended by any of the participants in the organization. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3984

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The core thesis: organizations can lurch toward evil without any participant intending it — a genuinely disturbing, paradigm-shifting claim about moral responsibility that resists one-sentence summary.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3984
• XREF: connects to: A for-itself can never constitute itself as evil on its own — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 755