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The administration has cynically used fear to justify behavior that the civilized world has long considered criminal.

Ms. Graves added, "We're seeing an administration that's engaging in a lot of legal hair-splitting to justify behavior that's not authorized by the law".

8. See also Rosati (1995) and (2003) on contemporary uses of an "open question argument" against certain forms of ethical naturalism, including appeals to evolutionary history to justify behavior.

The U.S. has flagrantly and criminally substituted the use of military force for the rule of international law and the jurisdiction of international courts, using political arguments to justify behavior that is legally unjustifiable.

Politics have been dominated by a minority movement that creates its own counter-reality, rejects science, denies established facts, and produces untruthful narratives to justify behavior at odds with reality.

In the privacy of our homes, clubs, and offices -- and in the tradeoff of philanthropy and what we perceive as the greater good -- we ignore our values, dismiss and rationalize them, justify behavior, and substitute fakes.

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Kohlberg's scale is about how people justify behaviors and his stages are not a method of ranking how moral someone's behavior is.

I don't understand those that can rationalize compassion or justify behaviors that leave pets and people behind as we drive to the warmth of our homes.

We know that despair does not justify behaviors that subject our children to misery and suffering, especially when that suffering can be prevented.

One wonders how the coughers can justify such behavior.

I hope that doesn't justify his behavior".

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