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The excuses can be a displacement of personal responsibility, lack of self-control or social pressures. External self-justification aims to diminish one's responsibility for a behavior and is usually elicited by moral dissonance. For example, the smoker might say that he only smokes socially and because other people expect him to.
Quintilian and classical rhetoric used the term color for the presenting of an action in the most favourable possible perspective. [5] Laurence Sterne in the eighteenth century took up the point, arguing that, were a man to consider his actions, "he will soon find, that such of them, as strong inclination and custom have prompted him to commit, are generally dressed out and painted with all ...
For example, a diabetic suffering a hypoglycaemic attack will not be liable for any loss or damage caused. To that extent, it borrows from the policy excuse favoring those who are suffering from a mental illness, but allows the full trial as to liability to proceed. For a detailed comparative law discussion, see automatism (case law).
It's the right thing to do and you were even excited thinking about it. But then, when the alarm went off at 6:30am, your inner dialogue was already spinning through your favorite excuses, which ...
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Rationalization (psychology), a psychological defense mechanism in which perceived controversial behaviors are logically justified also known as "making excuses" Post-purchase rationalization, a tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected
Something funny happened this week. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) defended the celebration of cold-blooded murder, and hardly anyone in the press ...
Adaptive example: researching a disease after being diagnosed rather than contemplating the life changing impact [24] Rationalization: understanding the reasoning behind actions; often touted as "making excuses" but can be adaptive [25]