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Tag Archives: moral justification
Shooting down morality: a picnic for the gun industry. Part 1.
In his new book, Moral Disengagement: How people do harm and live with themselves, psychologist Albert Bandura does a masterful job of showing how, for example, the National Rifle Association (NRA) promotes moral disengagement to promote arms sales at all … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, culture of violence, Moral disengagement, Understanding violence
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Pseudo-moral justifications (Moral disengagement, part 2)
In our August 30 post, we introduced psychologist Albert Bandura‘s mechanisms of moral disengagement. Today we begin to explore the six strategies Bandura has identified. Bandura indicates that often people “cognitively reconstruct” an inhumane behavior to make it into something … Continue reading
