Organizations can enforce complicity through deliberately suppressed curiosity

Evidence

APA officials displayed an exceptional lack of curiosity about what psychologists were doing in detention centers. They took no steps to find out. As described in the Hoffman Report, they “intentionally avoided seeking more information in the face of substantial indications of psychologist involvement in abuses at Guantanamo” (Hoffman et al., 2015). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2385

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is essentially ‘willful ignorance’ as an organizational mechanism — deliberately refusing to investigate is itself a moral decision, a concept Bandura could be making explicit.
• SEED: Essay angle: ‘willful non-curiosity’ as an overlooked corporate/institutional moral failure — the positive act of not asking, distinct from not knowing.
• XREF: connects to: Canon formation works by foreclosing certain questions while foregrounding others. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 484