Word: processof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis, and it is wholesome state of mind which, if widely and internationally held by younger generations, should be an effective deterrent to those who are supersensitive upon the subject of national honor and the like. Too often the assumed righteousness of wars is merely the result of a processof rationalization. We have to find excuses to justify the messes we get into, and the excuses must further the cause by casting credit upon ourselves. Thus in war both sides are equally righteous and unrighteous at the time, but subsequent critical reflection usually discerns a predominance of the latter. Stuart...
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