People routinely compromise their moral standards when facing social predicaments.

Evidence

Nor do people everywhere adopt the same core moral standards or always adhere to the moral standards they have adopted. In navigating troublesome social realities involving moral predicaments, individuals are vulnerable to compromising their moral standards and even disengaging morality entirely from their harmful conduct. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the core mechanism ground for existing vault claims about ordinary people rationalizing harmful policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 210