I don’t find either of your main examples (taxes or blame apportionment) particularly compelling, and gave some reasons for that. And this makes me less likely to accept your thesis that power allows an incorrect perception of moral distance, or that it (necessarily) obscures information flow.
There probably is a relationship in there—power as a measure of potential impact on almost any topic means that power can do these things. It’s not clear that it automatically or always does, nor that power is the problem as opposed to bad intentions of the powerful.
I don’t find either of your main examples (taxes or blame apportionment) particularly compelling, and gave some reasons for that. And this makes me less likely to accept your thesis that power allows an incorrect perception of moral distance, or that it (necessarily) obscures information flow.
There probably is a relationship in there—power as a measure of potential impact on almost any topic means that power can do these things. It’s not clear that it automatically or always does, nor that power is the problem as opposed to bad intentions of the powerful.