There’s never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn’t think he was fully justified. That’s a mental trick called rationalizing, and it’s done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.
Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 14.
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Brackett was herself an excellent writer, and married to the fellow who wrote most of the stories about one of my principal childhood rôle models. One of the things that I love about her is that she had the courage to write golden-age science fiction decades after the golden age of science fiction had passed.