My roommate and I keep ordering from a restaurant even though we know they're stealing tips from their workers because the food is cheap and convenient. We both worked service jobs and know how wrong this is, but we've convinced ourselves that boycotting won't really change anything and we're broke graduate students anyway.
More people experience this than they realize.
People compromise their values through shared rationalization while maintaining the fiction that individual choices don't matter.
“Where Are You with Moral courage in everyday life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.