Suicide bombing was normalized through formal training and hero glorification

Evidence

The Tamil Tigers institutionalized suicide bombing, teaching its use formally in training camps (Weitz & Neal, 2007). The Tigers celebrated suicide bombers as heroic figures. They immortalized their first suicide bomber, memorialized on Tamil Tigers Day all those who had sacrificed their lives, and even named orphanages after suicide bombers. Recruiters glorified death in combat, telling potential recruits, “If you die fighting, you get a hero’s death. But if you die naturally, you die a coward” (Meadows, 2010). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2223

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s moral-panics and terrorism-rationalization material; the recruitment pitch is a stark instance of moral disengagement redefining death as heroism. — connects to: Cults can institutionalize suicide bombing and redefine natural death as cowardice; Religious leaders equate suicide bombing with dying in combat to justify it
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2223