One needs to be especially careful not to rationalize away or create justifications for them.
At the same time we all make mistakes, so we create justifications and excuses -- many of which are at best half-truths.
And if we treat others abominably, no matter how much they wish to harm us, then we create justifications for torture and cruelty.
Argument counterargument integration (Nussbaum, 2008) refers to the process of evaluating, refuting, and synthesizing arguments on two sides of an issue when creating justification for an overall conclusion.
"It is suspected that in many vehicle shooting cases, the subject driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force," the report reads.
The counselors in prison made him aware of how the mind creates justifications to tolerate its own misdeeds.
As recently confirmed by James Van Cleve (2011), the conclusions supported by these considerations are that coherence can boost justification or credibility that is already there without being able to create such justification or credibility from scratch.
"Regulatory lapses elsewhere don't create a justification for the perpetuation of a system that is broken," he said.
My take is that the regime intentionally jails peaceful moderates so as to leave the protest movement in the hands of young men who discredit it by throwing firebombs — and thus create a justification for repression.
Publication would serve to "create without justification a real risk that public confidence in the judicial system will be undermined", it went on, suggesting the risk had been exacerbated by the MP's later comments.
