They sound more like rationalizations than restraints.
Over the years, I've developed some theories about repairs around the house, although they might sound more like rationalizations to, say, a skeptical spouse.
Germany's military reforms are "more a rationalization than a revolution in the German psyche," said Alastair Cameron, a European security specialist at the RUSI private policy institute in London.
Nor can they be explained by the myth of the Negro's innate incapacities, or by the more sophisticated rationalization of his acquired infirmities.
As the liberation movements begun in the 1960s now found themselves under attack, the Uncanny was made to once again seem relevant, even if it was now more a rationalization for making an art of dissent than it was a symptom of mounting guilt and suppression of morally proscribed desire.
In the mainstream quality improvement and public policy literature, the existence of such overlapping and contradictory systems, is seen to be a problem; it is seen in many situations to be an indictment of the seemingly disorganized state of quality measurement and improvement activities, and another reason for more streamlining, rationalization, and joined up approaches (see, e.g. [ 48, 111]).
It has become clear by now that tacit "understandings reached in Paris last fall leading to the halt in the bombing of N. Vietnam in Nov., were little more than semantic rationalizations enabling both side to claim concessions while keeping all of their choices intact Communist attacks began again on the night of Feb. 22-23, after more than 2 months of jockeying for position on both sides.
And no one can feel the disconnect between our true motives and our rationalizations more than we do.
Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton, articulated this fact in 1969 in his fierce Yale Law Journal criticism of legal arguments being used as the servants of policy, functioning as no more than transparent rationalizations, "less a figleaf than a see through garment," he wrote.
However, no longer can I look past the reality that my annual voluntary forfeiture of money to my government pays for violence around the globe, at astounding levels, and I am not able to provide any more excuses or rationalizations that paying without protest, that being complicit in funding war without resistance, is not contradictory to my faith and to my conscience.
