Premeditated homicide requires stripping moral self-sanctions first

Evidence

In intentional murders, the various methods of moral disengagement come strongly into play. Murderers have to strip the moral self-sanctions from taking a person’s life. When they kill in the name of religion and ideology, they persuade themselves of the morality of their homicidal actions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1962

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reading purpose: ideological/moral justification (‘they persuade themselves of the morality of their homicidal actions’) is the same self-exoneration mechanism vault claims underlie support for harmful policy toward out-groups.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1962