Terrorists can come from privileged conservative backgrounds rather than deprived ones

Evidence

Diana Oughton was a gentle, lighthearted young woman whose background and personal attributes were the antithesis of the common correlates of political activism. She came from a privileged conservative family and a congenial, conventional upbringing. However, even early in life she voiced concern over the family’s affluence. At age 6 she asked her nanny, “Ruthie, why do we have to be rich?” She continued to exhibit discordance between her conservatism and altruism. On the one hand, having adopted her parent’s conservative values, she rejected socially beneficial programs as examples of the evils of big government. On the other hand, for her extracurricular activity at Bryn Mawr College, she tutored children living in the ghetto. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2130

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims about how ordinary people rationalize harmful policy — here Bandura shows radicalization begins from altruistic concern in a privileged context.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2130