Reason as logic, or reason as motive...or reason as a way of life?
...They don't have to give
me reasons. I can write my own damn
reasons. And that is not the same...as the half-baked tolerance that
comes from no longer caring.
-- John le Carré. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel, 1974).
[George Smiley speaking to Peter Guillam, Chapter 11]