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Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified"

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The Role of Reason in Robbery and Domestic Abuse

In experiments, people come up with virtuous sounding justifications for self-interested behavior. Do you have any reason to doubt that the moral justifications that robbers or domestic abusers give for their actions are rationalizations as opposed to the actual causes of their acts? "I can't really get inside the mind of a perpetrator," he says.

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