We all have our reasons is a misnomer really.

We all have 

our 

EXCUSES, 

or our 

RATIONALISATIONS,

and a few other Freudian Defence Mechanisms 
and Cognition Biases and FAILURES.

Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, establishing and verifying facts, applying logic, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.

Rationalisation is the prerogative of all I would say.  

Even the more rational are quite irrational in so many ways,
Sam Harris comes to mind here,
among million of others.
I like the Denys Arcand's line in one of his movies
Intellectuals make the worse parents.
Because bottom line our very best is just not good enough

I sound like an echo of myself and this is what I am.
Our greatest minds of this century will be ridiculed next century,
Speaking of, as much as Freud is discredited in this new century
by people who will ALSO be discredited in the next century,
without going into his obsession with sex and libido
I still can relate very much to the Defence Mechanisms that bare his name
even though at times some people think
the best Defense is Offense

and are very aggressive in their Denial, Projection, Identification, and especially Rationalisations. 
I wish I had more insight on the subject but watching some of them so-called Sannyasin yesterday in NETFLIX's Wild Wild Country was fascinating from a psychological point of view.
How so-called intelligent men could twist their minds and perform unbelievable psyche contortions and still live with themselves.
It would seem that to be an idealist is to write Victim on your forehead and a PLEASE SHOOT ME.
Now to be a realist well whatever that maybe...
it seems like reality is 7 billion different concepts at time.
My reality Your reality etc
"My reality is closer to the real reality than your reality"
 for whatever that means.
What is the "reality" of a cult member really?
What is the "reality" of a soldier while we're here?
Something he can hardly cope with and many turn to PTSD or Suicide.
What is the reality of a scientist (a so-called rational person) who is trying to get funds for his pet project

or has to deal deeply with all sorts of twists in his mind for experimenting on highly unethical things in very unethical ways?
What was the reality of all those scientists on the Manhattan Project 

or those working on NAPALM at Dow Chemicals

or those working at Dupont or Lockheed

or any other manufacturer of DEATH.
Just echoing the same old things over and over but they STILL have no answers.

You want to track each trickle

Back to its source

And then scream up the faucet

Till your face is hoarse

'Cause you're surrounded by a world's worth

Of things you just can't excuse

But you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker

And you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker

And it's getting colder and colder

Everytime you lose

So go ahead

Make your next bold move

Tell us

What's the next thing you're gonna have to prove

To yourself

Ani DiFranco

Another thing I said before:

Fallacious Logic Used to Quell Cognitive Dissonance? 
No Shit Sherlock! 
It Happens Every Day, Many Times a Day!



Enough said and resaid and reresaid 

but still no answers to the million trillion inexcusable things

one see and even more 
the one we don't see, 
done in the dark 

Dirty Deeds Done Cheap 
and not so Cheap.

Rinse & Repeat

P.S. While I am here the very "cultic" practice of Ostracisation also is a funny way to alter reality.

P.P.S. Funny that the etymology of Rationalisation goes back to reason and rational.