Workers distinguish contaminated mixtures from pure chemicals as harmless

Evidence

By Barbas’s lights, there was no harm in putting the paint sludge on the ground, even though it contained TCE. A meticulous man, he would shovel up the paint remnants after a few days, when it had dried, and dump it into an ordinary trash bin. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 959

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The neatness instinct and the poisoning instinct are the same instinct — the exact psychological mechanism by which routine environmental harm proceeds.
• XREF: connects to: Environmental harm inscribes itself visibly on children’s and workers’ bodies — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1108; Adverse comparison normalizes harmful products by likening them to benign ones — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1646

Broader Connections

• Adverse comparison normalizes harmful products by likening them to benign ones #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1646
• Environmental harm inscribes itself visibly on children’s and workers’ bodies #complicates (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1108