Lucy has previously said that she thinks it is wrong of people to cheat on their homework. However during finals week she was extremely busy with work and trying to study on top of her regular homework so she asked one of her friends to give her the answers to an online quiz. When her friend teased her for going against her own morals she became very defensive and they got in an argument. Lucy claimed that she had never said cheating was wrong and gave her friends several reasons why she believed it was ok to cheat in this case. This is an example of