I think that things that are tangental to crucial aspects of our personality are the things that wind up having the simplest rationalizations, simply because we've never felt the need to dissect why we do them. Why we do them is so integral a part of who we are that our reasons are simple because they don't have to be complicated -- we'd never live in any other way. Technically, we don't need a reason at all.
I might even go so far as to say that when you're dealing with the kind of self-sacrifice you're talking about, it might be that the reasons HAVE to be simple, because anything else, and the person doing the reasoning would have already talked themselves out of it.
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I think that things that are tangental to crucial aspects of our personality are the things that wind up having the simplest rationalizations, simply because we've never felt the need to dissect why we do them. Why we do them is so integral a part of who we are that our reasons are simple because they don't have to be complicated -- we'd never live in any other way. Technically, we don't need a reason at all.
I might even go so far as to say that when you're dealing with the kind of self-sacrifice you're talking about, it might be that the reasons HAVE to be simple, because anything else, and the person doing the reasoning would have already talked themselves out of it.