Re: Rationalize
Everybody rationalises. You have to assume - or pretend to yourself - that the world is a safe place every morning when you wake up. Otherwise you would never get out of bed. You have to rationalise the basic reality that you could be hit by a bus, shot by a terrorist or mugged by a lowlife by saying "I'll be OK today". You couldn't function if you didn't rationalise. You also do it to allay guilt. YOu have to convince yourself that what you do, think and say - how you behave- is OK, to justify it to yourself.