Bandura’s theory tries to look at the causes of individual and crowd violence and providing solutions to the same. The theory brings out the reasons and the explanation for these kinds of behaviors along with solutions. Bandura suggests that individuals sometimes would not want to be accountable to their individual responsibilities. If they break their moral standards, they tend to have a perception that it is not ethically wrong. Individuals would most likely justify their behaviors, owing to the fact that individuals would view themselves as always right and just. This is born of the fact that the individuals would reconcile any unethical or immoral behavior. The different mechanisms individuals use to justify their moral behaviors include; first, the behavior could be justified in the sense that it could bring about or generate some unexpected benefits. For example, a person does something wrong and justifies it in the sense that the behavior could generate greater benefits than lose. Individuals will try to be polite in order to down grade the gravity or the graveness of the mistake. A person would not want to term an act of, for example ‘stealing’ what would rather call it ‘taking’. Another aspect that individuals would apply is the fact that individuals would more likely compare and contrast the behavior with unethical examples. This is to bring out a sense of justification by virtue of the fact that the behavior have once been encountered. The sense that something immoral have been done in the past brings out the element that the behavior is not serious. A person will not want to become accountable to own actions and responsibilities but would rather shift to someone else. A person will also dehumanize or term the victim of the behavior as an object, rather than a person. These are all means to justify the immoral behavior.
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