Rationalizing is determining which side you believe, and then selecting and interpreting evidence to support it. So rationalizing is basically fake reasoning or after the fact reasoning. (Reasoning: examines the evidence, and determines which side the evidence supports. An example of this would be: “We hate Microsoft; therefore everything that goes wrong on the computer is Microsoft’s fault” (and dismisses any problems with a Mac). Just because a person hates Microsoft and thinks that everything wrong with the computer is Microsoft’s fault doesn’t mean it actually is Microsoft’s fault. It could be many things wrong with the computer so rationalizing just because something else went wrong and to blame a party for that whole problem is definitely a fallacy.
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