She surmises that two levels of self-justification probably were going on in Madoff's mind.
When the loser stock suddenly takes off and rewards the dumb buyer, the smart investor will most certainly find a pathway to self-justification and his rightness remains intact.
Does the embargo provide Castro with a political self-justification?
Nomi Prins, who worked on Wall Street and wrote Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, tells NPR's Melissa Block that some people on Wall Street can go through a self-justification process based on ego.
Over the weekend, we were treated to a smorgasbord of self-justification from Herman Cain and Jerry Sandusky, who, as they spiral downward and hopefully out of the public eye, seem unable to just shut up.
It has to do with self-justification.
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They're in front of the camera because they want to be, telling stories about life in the Shin Bet's moral and operational shadows for reasons that clearly include self-justification the settling of scores against those who ignored their advice or turned against their agency but, just as clearly, a desire to enunciate their passionately held beliefs.
Though this statute is anything but a model of clarity, it does suggest that whoever "provokes" a deadly encounter has a heavy burden of justification in claiming self-defense.
As far as I can tell, if Russia had a purely self-interested and inconsistent approach to diplomacy, an approach that adopted a justification post-facto and in which policy in one situation did not necessarily bear any relation to policy in another situation, then it would actively encourage Western sanctions and do everything it could to drive up tensions.
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These and related issues provide ample justification on the grounds of "legitimate" self-interest for U.S.-led intervention in Soviet affairs.
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