They are rationalizations (and not so satisfying to receive).
What he gets more worked up about are "rationalizations," such as the argument that animals like cattle and chickens exist only because we eat them and their milk and eggs.
All of these are rationalizations for inaction.
However, other studies claim that many of these explanations are rationalizations, since distance is relative, and that the 'shyness' of ethnic minority women that is often referred to is actually rooted in other factors (56).
No, it's Rationalization Man!
There is rationalization: "The crime against Anita was decades old.
In his 2012 book, "In Praise of Reason," Lynch identified three sources of skepticism about reason: the suspicion that all reasoning is rationalization, the idea that science is just another faith, and the notion that objectivity is an illusion.
"It is rationalization that allows them to avoid admitting that their desires are harmful and illegal," said Bill Walsh, a former commander of the Crimes Against Children Unit for the Dallas Police Department, who founded the most prominent annual national conference on the issue.
If merely a heuristic device and not a universal law of progress, then, what is rationalization and whence comes his uncompromisingly dystopian vision?
"We know all about them here," he says with a pitch black grin, "my particular mechanism is rationalization, although repression is very popular".
What it comes down to is rationalization -- that natural and human need to justify that which in fact does not make sense.
