Ah, the "I'm not the kind of person who would do that" therefore "I must not have done that," even though you just did that and I watched you do it dance. Too many cases to count.
Genuinely crazy to watch. They have wild mental blocks in their head.
"I did X. But only bad people do X. I'm a good person so I didn't do X. If anyone asks, I did the letter before Y, which is not X. Alternatively, it's not X when I do it to you, because you deserve it, which means it's good, and thus it can not be X which is bad."
They are preventing cognitive dissonance with a wall of conditioned mental sophistry.
Ah, the "I'm not the kind of person who would do that" therefore "I must not have done that," even though you just did that and I watched you do it dance. Too many cases to count.
Genuinely crazy to watch. They have wild mental blocks in their head.
"I did X. But only bad people do X. I'm a good person so I didn't do X. If anyone asks, I did the letter before Y, which is not X. Alternatively, it's not X when I do it to you, because you deserve it, which means it's good, and thus it can not be X which is bad."
They are preventing cognitive dissonance with a wall of conditioned mental sophistry.
It's a lot easier
Good guy does not do evil, I am good guy, therefore it did not happen.
That's basically it.