How to Adapt to Self Deception in a Social System

In a social species like ours, there are lots of good reasons for you to fool yourself so that you can better fool others. And all that adaptive self deception when the mind fools itself for really good reasons. I'm having fucking Catholic girls have had anal sex because they convince themselves that that's not losing their virginity. But right, exactly what you're talking about,. They'll figure out ways to rationalize it so that they align the mammalian limbic brain with the sort of human conscious cortex.