Rationalization is a mental gymnastics technique (an "argument fallacy") in which one tries to justify (to self and/or others) doing something he wants to do (usually something evil) by providing seemingly "rational" arguments in favor of the action. In current dystopian world this is done constantly by practically everyone as a part of the "self interest game". However, as always, best examples can be found in politics and places alike. The goal of rationalization is to justify evil, make evil look like good and/or make someone look not responsible for it, by exploiting the mental shortcut "rational = good" and playing on the established cult of science. It's also a way of just "saying something" when accused of evil, i.e. culturally when we're accused of evil, we're meant to start opening and closing our mouth and make some sounds, and rationalization is a great device to do it without having to think much.
Example: capitalists often use rationalization to justify or reject pretense based on what's best for them like this:
It's clear the capitalist just does what's in his personal interest and just spits out some keywords that are meant to conjure and illusion of "rationality" to hide the selfish motives behind. Indeed, this only fools a retard, but practically everyone in society is a retard, so this technique works every time.
Yet another example is the infamous soyence brain fart going as follows: "Human races don't exist, the concept has no significance and is unethical to research BECAUSE it is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT invented in very old times." Of course other social constructs invented in old times such as biological species, science or music are somehow perfectly existing, useful and acceptable.
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