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moral injury

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Moral injury is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.

From The Moral Injury Project at Syracuse

Related to ethics

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There’s “an even more hidden class of workers who do these morally troubling things that are pretty central to our society … “ he says. “This is a moment where we’re all thinking about how workers who are hidden and who pay the price — both physically and emotionally and in other ways — how we depend on them.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1028666043/this-book-introduces-you-to-the-people-doing-your-dirty-work