Moral Self-Licensing In 'The Lady Vanishes'

In 2008, Barack Obama becomes the first African American president. Many people thought it could be a huge step to improve the relationship between White and Black, as well as to relieve all the discrimination and prejudice towards Black community. However, there are voices saying that the problem have became worse. After listening to the podcast “The Lady Vanishes,” I would say Malcolm Gladwell would explain this phenomenon using the concept of moral self-licensing. Malcolm Gladwell mentioned moral self-licensing in the podcast, as well as Daniel Effron, one of the founder of the term moral licensing. In the scholarly article Moral Self-Licensing: when being good frees us to be bad written by Effron and his colleagues,