Terrorists disclaim deadly intent to recast deliberate harm as economic sabotage

Evidence

In an incongruous moral justification, the terrorist group that contaminated Israeli oranges exported to Europe in 1978 claimed responsibility for the act but disclaimed intent to kill people, declaring that their goal was “not to indiscriminately kill … [the] population, but to sabotage the Israeli economy” (Sprinzak & Karmon, 2007). The fact that the mercury injected into the oranges sickened but did not kill innocent consumers does not negate the morally reprehensibility of the act. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2162

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2162