Everything is ex-post reasoning: we can run fast, detect cheating, kill our stepchildren, because…and here you simply insert anything from the days of being a member of a small, close-knit, endangered tribe to justify this.With this, one can explain almost everything without actually ever bothering or being able to prove anything.
Leaders, including Cameron, have justified this with the claim that refugees are safe from mortal danger in Turkey.
And it seeks to justify this with paid research that is sometimes only slightly better than the "paid news" that afflicts a lot of private media.
Hunt justified this with a BMJ paper [registration] that found around 11,000 more people die within 30 days of being admitted to hospital on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday, compared with admissions on other days of the week.
She's been justifying this with some flannel about being a role model – "I want people – especially young girls – to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal.
He tried to justify this with a history lesson on federalism and state experimentation, but, in fact, he said nothing about what makes Massachusetts different from its neighbors or any other state.
Ms Solberg justified this with the claim that it was necessary to use oil income on education and infrastructure to strengthen an economy that is labouring under slow growth, increased costs and sluggish productivity.
PUAs justify this with a muddled appeal to evolutionary psychology, particularly the idea of "alpha" and "beta" males.
Especially the ending of the video justified this with Gaga murdering the corporate heads who supposedly destroyed her freedom in the beginning of the video.
Beck invariably uses his real or feigned bromance with the Founding Fathers to explain his crabbed selfishness; he justifies this "principle" with a quote from George Washington, which actually has an entirely different spirit: "It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer".
The government justifies this policy with reference to its target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands.
