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When Doing Right Feels Wrong

Hidden Brain

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Moral Licensing in Mission Driven Organizations

A phenomenon called a moral licensing, the idea developed by psychologist bena monin and dale miller. If you think of yourself as having a certain level of morality, then it licenses you to be less moral on other dimensions. And so that might also occur in the whistle blowing context. I mean, some ways, the idea is that if you are basically already, you know, putting money in your moral piggy bank by doing a good thing,. By being part of a mission driven organization or a humanitarian organization, it now becomes a little easier to take money out of that piggy bank when when you're u when you're called upon to do so.

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