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"This bottleneck has to get rationalized," says Terence Garnett, who invests in software for the venture firm Venrock.
The Walmart stampedes, ye ole drunken family stabbing, Santa Dolls in Brazil filled with cocaine: Terrible choices get rationalized when they are done in the name of giving your loved ones or yourself a better holiday.
The Walmart stampedes, ye ole drunken family stabbing,Santa Dolls in Brazil filled with cocaine: Terrible choices get rationalized when they are done in the name of giving your loved ones or yourself a better holiday.
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When people are looking at property on the water with beautiful views, all that gets rationalized away".
They cheat to get ahead, rationalizing that "everybody does it".
It is an old double standard in professional sports that when the marriage of star and team dissolves, the player will inevitably risk accusations of infidelity while the team will get to rationalize the severance as a prudent business decision.
To hear Swinton (who really needs a supporting Oscar nod for this but sadly won't get it) rationalize why they only eat the sushi twice a year...I could hear the Koch Brother's and Boehner sitting around talking about the American poor in the same way in my head.
"Greed can get people to rationalize pretty bad behavior," Andrew Kolodny had told me.
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