Why do 'good people' involved in charity work hand in bad deeds?

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Oriska Wilde , a poet and playwright born in Ireland, said in a critique of " the soul of human being under socialism " announced in 1981, "It is contrary to intuition that philanthropy creates many sins" I left a saying. As if to support such a Wild word, in 2018 a sexual harassment at the event venue was raised at the Presidents Club which is a charity organization in the UK, and Oxfam , an international organization that is committed to eradicating poverty and injustice Many wrongdoings are being carried out by people engaged in charity, such as the prosecution of prostitution and sexual abuse by staff is disclosed. Abbas Panjwani , a journalist, explains the question of why "good people" involved in philanthropic activities are going hand in hands.

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Engaging in philanthropy is a socially good deed and tends to be seen as "aggressive and great in charity" from around us. However, it is also a fact that such good people sometimes dyed hands with bad practices, and few wonder why such nice people become bad people in private. There should not be.

Panjwani says about this mechanism, "Some good people give themselves" licenses to do bad things "themselves." According to the paper published by the economist at the University of Chicago in 2017, working at a company with social significance reports that employees will upgrade their motivation to conduct fraud.

Researchers conducted experiments to make people do the job of posting unprinted short German texts. At that time, it was said that 10% of the fee was prepaid and the remaining 90% completed the work or signed a contract to pay when declaring that "German characters can not be posted because it is hard to read" about.

And some people told the information that "5% of remuneration will be donated to UNICEF's educational program", and the percentage of fraudulent acts in work compared with the group not informed about donation It rose by as much as 25%. Some of the fraudulent acts included receiving only 10% prepayment money and not carrying out the remaining work, claiming that letters are difficult to read and get full payment without doing any work about.

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Researchers received this result and when people felt great significance that their actions would lead to charity, they felt "licenses of moral" that would defraud the remuneration from employers for charity I assert that. The work that is good for society is to make workers feel "I can work illegally against companies and employers".

However, this alone can not explain the case where a charity organization conducts sexual violence at the event site. The above-mentioned "moral licensing" theory is effective only when it is possible to streamline that his own action is a good person individually, or if the judgment of good or bad is ambiguous.

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Daniel Effron, an expert on organizational ethics at the London Business School, says that there are two types of "licenses for morals". One of them is the "moral credentials" mechanism, and it is often seen when it is possible to rationalize and justify fraudulence within himself, as explained above. I am doing good things, and the psychology is working that it seems that I am a good person from the outside even if I do ethically ambiguous behavior.

As another license, Mr. Effron is thinking about the "moral balance" mechanism. This is like a bank's deposit balance, people accumulate the moral balance every time they do good, and when they do bad things, they do bad things from the accumulated moral balance I will work with the image that draws out. In this case, the only problem is that "I am building up good deeds in the past and there is enough balance", even if the executed bad line can not be streamlined, it does not matter.

Mr. Effron 's "Moral Balance" theory is an explanation of scandals made by Presidents Club and Oxfam officials. People who did scandals at least believed that there was consciousness that good deeds were accumulated to the extent that bad deeds can be rationalized within themselves.

"Effron notes that only philanthropy is vulnerable to such moral licensing," Effron points out that similar cases can be confirmed in many areas. According to the research, it seems that even if it is a trivial action of saying "I bought an environmentally friendly product", consumers may give licenses to behaviors contrary to morality.

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