Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior

[paulpauper]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/202008/six-common-ways-people-justify-unethical-behavior

[anm89]

Unethical according to who? As the top comment at the time I'm writing this mentions, this article is garbage.

[throwaway292893]

Pile of trash like most of psychology today.

It just interleaves some obvious things with pure conjecture.

The "wiping away their sins" inferred by offering them a pencil or a cleansing wipe was just icing on the cake.

[brador]

Missing “if I don’t do it somebody else would”.

[ksaj → brador]

Agreed. By extension, "Other people do it (or something perceived as similar to it) all the time."

A certain ex-president was famous for "many people are saying..." which is justification through presumed inevitability.

[paulpauper]

surprised that sense of entitlement is not listed. some people think that dishonesty can rectify a perceived wrong of imbalance

[emptyparadise]

Tag yourself.