And no one can feel the disconnect between our true motives and our rationalizations more than we do.
In The Big Chill, Jeff Goldblum's character says that rationalization is more important than sex.
By now, Walsh surely understands that the New York basketball community does not want more rationalizations from Thomas, or, worse, postulations for the future.
If you hold these discussions regularly, you'll gradually get beyond the rationalizations and develop more common definitions of what is acceptable and what is not -- which is the essence of an integrity culture.
This tired rationalization for prejudice is more than improbable.
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]).
You'll probably experience cravings for sex, but don't give into the rationalization that "just one more time" won't set you back.
