Sentences with phrase «illusion of justification»

They may even feel like a victim themselves, giving them the illusion of justification for their actions.

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To your last point, when I said choice is an illusion, I wasn't referring that it is impossible to make that choice, but rather that there is a «right» choice and a «wrong» choice, the «right» one being that you worship god, regardless of how weird some of the rituals might be, making you a little more than a robot, acting out a script your given, we're just slightly better because we can justify why we're acting out a command, but it takes years to understand that justification, in the beginning, you do these rituals because you're given a script and if you don't want to do it, tough.

The traditional problem is to explain the possibility and justification of this move, bearing in mind the errors and illusions which sometimes lead us astray.1

Neglecting these «output» and «input» aspects of legitimacy and giving priority instead to a euronationalist justification of a European sovereignty in the making could also turn out to be detrimental to individual freedoms: the illusion of homogeneity it would produce could incite European citizens to support policies sold by political leaders as being in the interest of the European «community» or «people», but actually only serving a tiny minority.

The above comments by wishful thinking skeptics coming up with all manner of ways to ignore this elephant in the room are simply delusional, do not be under the illusion hindsight that they had any sort of «point» or justification.

I think it actually is worst than most other choices inasmuch as it is done under the tacit pretense (or illusion) of one's occupying «neutral» point of view and hence exempts one from the burden of justification.