A problem that occurs when you don’t eat anything for a very long time. It’s like extreme hunger. What makes it worse is that when you end up eating something you’ll feel nauseous and lose appetite quickly.
Someone 1: “Why didn’t you finish your food? 10 minutes ago you said you’d die from starvation.”
Someone 2: “Nope that’s all I can eat today.”
Someone 1: “You just ate 2 slices of pizza.”
Someone 2: “Exactly.”
The micro-level, moralistic cousin to famine rationalization. It personalizes hunger, suggesting an individual's starvation results from a lack of hustle, poor planning, or divine will, rather than from dispossession, engineered scarcity, or the violence of markets. It turns a social condition into a personal failing.
Example: "They're hungry because they don't budget properly or value education." This starvation rationalization ignores the reality of food deserts, unlivable wages, and the time poverty of working three jobs. It rationalizes a society's failure to feed its people by blaming the empty stomachs themselves.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.