Suppressing consequence-thoughts requires deliberate ongoing mental effort.

Evidence

When asked whether he was ever haunted by thoughts about the suffering his wares might cause, he explained that a weapons dealer cannot afford to think about consequences. Banishing thoughts of the injurious results of one’s actions frees one from restraints of conscience: “If I really thought about the consequences all the time, I certainly wouldn’t have been in this business. You have to blank it off [ sic]” (Thomas, 1982). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2200

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intellectual self-discipline resists impulses the thinker already harbors within himself; Apathy requires active interactional effort to sustain. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 938