Resisting organizational evil individually is too rare to be the main preventive lever

Evidence

I continue to believe in that message, but I find I cannot apply it with such conviction as I used to when I think about the cases discussed here. To resist the psychological forces characteristic of the organizations discussed herein, pressures which strike me as often highly coercive and reinforced by real physical threats, requires a rare degree of individual strength indeed. This plea for resistance at the individual level to the contrary, the real action in evil-prevention may lie elsewhere. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4036

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to my collective-vs-individual question: Darley doubts whether resistance is available to ordinary individuals, just as strategic essentialism may only be sustainable by extraordinary individual subjects. — connects to: Preventing evil requires intervening at the organizational, not individual, level; Individual resistance cannot withstand coercive organizational evil, so prevention must be structural. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4036; Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Preventing evil requires intervening at the organizational, not individual, level #corroborates (0.92)
• Individual resistance cannot withstand coercive organizational evil, so prevention must be structural. #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4036
• Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure #corroborates (0.90)
• Organizational complexity can displace criminal responsibility away from individual actors. #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1574