Public moral debate threatens the justifications that shield harm-doers from distress.

Evidence

Public dispute over the morality of the death penalty is stressful for executioners because it threatens their justifications for it: “Having the whole country concerned about the death penalty creates more stress for us than the actual execution”. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2048

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends vault claims that publicly challenging legitimating ideology unsettles those who enforce harmful policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2048