Seeing one’s actions as culturally normative erases felt responsibility for them

Evidence

To begin with, Armstrong did not construe his doping behavior as ethically transgressive. “Did it feel wrong?” Oprah asked. “No,” Armstrong replied. … “Did you feel bad about it?” “No.” He regarded the use of performance-enhancing substances as a normative practice in the fiercely competitive culture of professional sports. Viewing one’s behavior as a product of the time and place reduces a sense of personal responsibility for it. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 239

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘it was normative in this culture’ rationalization is the same pattern used by ordinary citizens to accept biased policy as ‘just how things work’ — parallels vault claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 239