Moral Injury

Have you heard of the term moral injury? Adrienne's Corner blog offers these two paragraphs:

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. source

Moral injury refers to an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression, which produces profound emotional guilt and shame, and in some cases also a sense of betrayal, anger and profound "moral disorientation".

Adrienne adds many worthwhile thoughts on the subject here: http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2021/08/moral-injury-decision-fatigue-and.html