Support roles gradually become as morally disengaged as executioners

Evidence

However, members of the support team began as moral engagers but gradually became moral disengagers with more frequent participation in executions. By the 15th execution they become moral disengagers and no longer differed in this regard from their counterparts on the execution team. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2061

Categorization

• FICTION: A support worker’s slow capitulation to the very system they were hired to soften would make a strong character arc.
• DEEPTHINKING: The empathy-support role eroding into complicity over repeated exposure is a subtle and counterintuitive finding that resists easy summary.