It's even more insidious than that. Some people in positions of power are compelled to imitate socially-acceptable behavior as defined by popular media to the

It's even more insidious than that. Some people in positions of power are compelled to imitate socially-acceptable behavior as defined by popular media to the point where it requires active resistance to oppose the act of torture. See for example "Normative Social Influence"[1] and "Moral Conviction and Resistance to Social Influence" [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_social_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_social_influence [2] https://www.uic.edu/labs/skitka/public_html/OppTorture.pdf https://www.uic.edu/labs/skitka/public_html/OppTorture.pdf