>it boggles my mind how comfortably everybody seems able to justify it. People perform any number of mental gymnastics in order to justify their own interests.

>it boggles my mind how comfortably everybody seems able to justify it. People perform any number of mental gymnastics in order to justify their own interests. I'm reading A Struggle for Power right now and the 10 years before the American Revolution was basically one long exercise in mental gymnastics by both sides. We act on our interests and justify them post facto.