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Note on moral disengagement - Coggle Diagram
Note on moral disengagement
Benefits
adaptive function
("necessary evils")
painful medical procedures
eviction to uphold rental laws,
protect landlords' legal rights
emotional disengagement
Restructuring behavior to
appear less harmful or wrong
Moral justficiation
Euphemistic labelling
Advantageous comparison
Minimizing victims' distress
Distortion of consequences
Dehumanization
Obscuring moral agency,
accountability
Displacement of responsibility
Diffusion of responsibility
Attribution of blame
Warning signs
minimize effects
of actions to feel better about it
(distortion of consequences)
denying essential humanity
of those whom actions effects
(dehumanization)
false or exaggerated
comparisons
to make actions seem less wrong
(advantageous comparison)
blaming
actions on
superiors
(displacement of responsibility)
"sugar-coat"
ethically problematic act
(euphemistic labelling)
spread
blame to others or assuming others will
do the same
(diffusion of responsibility)
"greater good"
as excuse to do something wrong
(moral justification)
blaming victims
for actions
(attribution of blame)
Disadvantages
ethically problematic
unconscious operations