People retain their moral standards while selectively suspending them for harm.

Evidence

Moral disengagement does not alter moral standards. Rather, it provides the means for those who morally disengage to circumvent moral standards in ways that strip morality from harmful behavior and their responsibility for it. However, in other aspects of their lives, they adhere to their moral standards. It is the selective suspension of morality for harmful activities that enables people to retain their positive self-regard while doing harm. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Explains precisely how a social-conservative (Cooper) can hold moral principles yet support harmful Islamophobic policy — standards intact, selectively suspended for out-groups. — connects to: People more readily punish good moral agents than moral patients. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 147; People justify harm through utilitarian necessity and euphemistic concealment — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2974
• DEEPTHINKING: The core mechanism claim: self-regard is preserved not by abandoning morality but by compartmentalizing its application to specific targets — the crux of the vault’s rationalization argument.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 63