Preventing atrocities requires institutional change, not just producing more heroes

Evidence

Returning to the point about heroic individuals, in truth there are probably individuals who have the strength to “stand against” the forces that the present authors and I are conceptualizing. But my task in this essay is to elucidate the strengths of the forces that surround individuals caught up in these organizations, the forces that lead individuals along the continuum of destruction. I agree that there are some individuals who can stand against these pressures, but I do not accept the implication that is sometimes drawn from that—that the “real task” in resisting these atrocities is to produce more such heroes or martyrs. I see the central task of preventing these atrocities as existing at a different level, at the level of societal institutions. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4044 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bystander intervention must happen early to stop atrocity evolution — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 161; Preventing mass atrocities depends on societal institutions, not on producing heroic resisters — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4044; Preventing evil requires intervening at the organizational, not individual, level (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Preventing mass atrocities depends on societal institutions, not on producing heroic resisters #corroborates (0.97) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4044
• Preventing evil requires intervening at the organizational, not individual, level #corroborates (0.93)