How to Tell if You Are Lying to Yourself

Inside your own head, you can justify any action that you find desirable.

But is it really OK?

If the behaviour involves hiding, lying, coverups, destroying receipts, erasing browser history or incognito mode browsing,  etc., then that is pretty much a big clue that your fine sounding rationalizations are just a smokescreen.

It is a smokescreen you created to silence your conscience long enough so you can indulge in a forbidden activity without it annoying you.

And that is not OK.

It is also nothing new.

"...men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." Jesus, Jn 3:19