Sanctifying harmful means as worthy purposes eliminates anticipatory guilt and need for amends.

Evidence

Reduction of anticipatory guilt over harmful behavior is one such disinhibitory process. Disinhibitory refers to the weakening of restraints over harmful behavior. When harmful means are sanctified as serving worthy purposes, wrongdoers have no reason to be troubled by guilt or to feel the need to make amends. Quite the contrary: They take pride in doing even harm well, and when that harm is ignored or minimized, there is no moral predicament calling for self-sanctions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 265

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the vault’s core claim about how ordinary people rationalize supporting Islamophobic and racist policy: ideology sanctifies ends so the means stop reading as moral predicaments. — connects to: Sanctifying harmful means as worthy removes guilt and even elicits pride
• ADDENDUM: Supplies the mechanism behind the moral panic framing of Cooper’s social conservatism and the authoritarianism literature — sanctification of punitive means as serving worthy order.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 265