Severe deterrence is needed because moral restraint has disengaged

Evidence

Professor R. Larry Grayson of Penn State University, an authority on the health risks of mining, prescribed a consequential corrective: “We have to get these people with consequence so high they won’t do it” (Berkes, 2012). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1811

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1811
  • XREF: connects to: Moral restraints weaken when no specific victim is salient — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4008; Absent salient victims, moral restraints on harmful action weaken
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Moral restraints weaken when no specific victim is salient — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4008; Absent salient victims, moral restraints on harmful action weaken