Why Do People Justify Bad Behavior?

A tick, not like a tick of a clock but the tick of your mind, what makes a person who does horrible things tick? People who have bad behaviors are all around us. We even have bad behaviors, though we try to be “good”. Bad behaviors are unavoidable, they are natural instincts to man. Some people, who are hypocritical, say that it makes us a monstrous person to behave such ways, but can it even be helped? There is no such thing as a monster, it’s human nature for people to make bad choices, when people make these choice it’s influences from variables in their environment.

Some might feel that a person's choices can be justified by certain situations. That certain reasons can make a bad behavior okay. However, this is not true because of “deactivation of moral standards,” which is the justification of bad behavior. “It starts with the assertion that people believe we are more moral than we actually are, but the process of moral disengagement leads us to act immorally, and justify our bad behavior,” Craig Johnson a leadership ethicist

explains. When a person desire a certain outcome and they rationalize solutions for their outcomes. Such as killing someone in revenge, their thoughts are of justice but committing the same sin it’s an emotional reaction which they use the process of moral disengagement. Other variables such as emotions also affect our thoughts, they are huge influences on our actions. It’s usually natural people justify their thought and actions. Trying to moralize their desires to engage in affairs. With influences of other people and even media it makes it easier for humans to moralize their bad behaviors. Justifying our thoughts is almost like lying which is a normal behavior in humans and animal alike. "Certain conditions have to be in place for a statement to rise to the level of a lie," explains philosophy professor James E. Mahon of Washington and Lee University. "First, a person must make a statement and must believe that the statement is false. Second, the person making the statement must intend for the audience to believe that the statement is true. Anything else falls outside the definition of lying that I have defended." When a person lies they either do it intentionally or as a natural instinct due to the threat of self-esteem. It’s phycological, people tend to lie more at higher level when they feel threatened. It doesn’t necessarily make a person a bad person if they lie depending on circumstances. As all people have lied in some point in their lives, it’s quite natural.
Violence has been one of the cases that have determined if a person is good or bad. Violence is a natural survival instinct in species. "Aggression occurs among virtually all vertebrates and is necessary to get and keep important resources such as mates, territory and food," said study team member Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. "We have found that the reward pathway in the brain becomes engaged in response to an aggressive event and that dopamine is involved." Throughout history humans have been know with violence. Many wars over territory, mates, pride and resources such as animals fight over the same things. We aren’t far off from natural survival of species that we are still part animals also. Violence doesn’t necessarily make us bad people either. It’s a natural survival skill. We tend to crave dominance over territory, food and mates. "Aggressive behavior has evolved in species in which it increases an individual's survival or reproduction, and this depends on the specific environmental, social, reproductive, and historical circumstances of a species. Humans certainly rank among the most violent of species," says biologist David Carrier of the University of Utah. Understanding the basic survival of all species explains our makeup as humans. Humans have moralized natural instincts to don’ts with our complex thinking.
“Once a cheater, always a cheater” doesn’t necessarily ring true to all people who cheat. “More than 90% of Americans believe infidelity is unacceptable, yet 30-40% of people engage in it. Infidelity is associated with adverse outcomes such as depression, domestic violence, divorce, even homicide.” Kelly Campbell is an Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino.
There are 3 explanatory reasons why people cheat in their relationships.

Relationship issues, Individual reasons such a gender, personality, religiosity and lastly situational reasons. People of power such as stars and politicians are called horrible people once found out of cheating. When really cheating happens to be common among humans. Individual reasons relate to gender, males are usually the first to condone to infidelity since they have higher level of testosterone and a higher sex drive than females. Personalities such as traits also are influences on people’s choices. Religion is strong beliefs and they can guide a person through bizarre paths. Situations is life can also affect people’s choices. If they feel threatened it makes certain reactions happen. Along with all types of emotions to certain event. The human brain is so complex and all so different also. So many variables that affect each and everyone one of

us.
Lying, violence and cheating are normal behaviors in humans and these certain things don’t necessarily make people monsters since it’s product of our chemical makeup and environments. Factors of our world trigger our reactions of survival and that doesn’t make us that far off from animals. Every human had experienced bad behaviors from one time to another. People trying to moralize us as a species is what cause most of our problems. These behaviors are all normal and every human uses them for whatever situation they are in. So the following questions is when do these behaviors become excessive?