- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Your "friend" is using a common psychological defense that is called rationalization.
Deep down he realizes that it is wrong to do something that other people are not doing, in order to get an experience or set of circumstances that the average and typical participant does not get by simply participating in the game.
Ball players who take steroids, people who cheat on their taxes, bartenders who water their booze.... they all engage in rationalization in order to tell themselves that "it's okay that I do this, I have a damned good reason." When in fact, deep in their soul, they know that they are simply selfish, slimy, cheating scum.
Please feel free to kick your friend in the nuts and then tell him that it was okay for you to do it because you had a "good reason".
Do bartenders really do that?
I like your response Recon. That was well worth reading. This is will be a saved thread.