“I built a bunch of wells in Africa, gave people eye care when they needed it, gave houses to my employees; I can’t possibly be a bad guy”- MrBeast to himself before sleep every night after watching yet another mental break during his Bumfights ass videos.
So Moral Licensing is when you use “banked” good deeds subconsciously as an excuse to act like a total piece of shit. “I’m not racist I voted for Obama”. “I’m not psychologically torturing people for fun and self profit, I gave them half a million dollars!”
Conversation topics from the two old ladies sitting next to me at Perkins: Bringing back Adam Theilen to the Vikings, Somali Pirates(just broadly acknowledging they exist), is 1lb of butter(?) too much for a pan of lemon bars?, are they too old to watch tv?(very existential)