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Moral injury

Moral injury is the deep wound that comes from perpetrating, witnessing, or failing to prevent actions that violate your core values—a different wound than trauma, because here the threat came not from danger but from your own participation in wrongdoing. It dissolves the assumption that following orders or obeying laws absolves you of moral responsibility.

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