"This bottleneck has to get rationalized," says Terence Garnett, who invests in software for the venture firm Venrock.
You will try to rationalize saying OK I'm playing hooky from my job, but my driverless car knows what's best for me.
"If you look at his off-the-course behavior as we now know it, he clearly is incredibly skillful at rationalizing," said Parent, who wrote a best-selling book called "Zen Golf".
"It is such an extreme that it totally becomes rationalized," she said.
"In retrospect, they're disgusting, many of the things we used to do — too much fat and too much sugar, and a series of clichés taught while being rationalized," he said.
Dwight wrote prolifically and rationalized slavery, saying that a man "who receives slaves from his parents by inheritance, certainly deserves no censure for holding them".
"I'm sure everybody understood it was wrong to take other people's work, but they had ways of rationalizing it," said Karina Moy, a 2010 graduate of the school.
"Today's announcement is a giant step forward in rationalizing pricing," said William E. Kennard, the chairman of the F.C.C. "This is the most dramatic reduction in telephone service prices in the history of this agency".
"We should try and keep our eye out for situations where we feel an initial impulse to do good, but on further reflection, rationalize and say we don't have to," Rand says.
