(Originally posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 )
Top Ways We Are Rationalizing and Justifying What We Did
–*It was him or me
–*The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
–*They weren’t right together anyway.
–*I was stopping communism.
–*She was rich and didn’t need the extra baby.
–*I figured there was a good chance he was dead already, so why not go ahead and bury him.
–*He would have cheated first if he’d thought of it.
–*What difference does one shoplifted hat make?
–*I’m a Nietschean superman and I invent my own moral universe.
–*At least I’m smart enough to get paid for it.
–*Because money makes the world go round.
–*Because they were Jews.
–*Because they were not Jews.
–*Because I’m the one Anna Nicole really loved.
–*Because the safety of the planet is vested in my person as president of the U.S., and thus my office is infallible.
–*Because I am the living vicar of Christ and successor of St. Peter on Earth, and thus I am infallible.
–*The heart wants what it wants.
–*Mike Tyson need woman.
–*I am the jury. Pull my finger.
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