An Employee in Charge of Collecting Tickets at the Entrance

Multiple Choice

An employee in charge of collecting tickets at the entrance of a movie theater lets her friends enter the theater without paying for tickets. She thinks it is fine to do so because the employees at the popcorn bar give free popcorn to their friends. This type of rationalization is categorized as:

A) denial of responsibility.
B) denial of the victim.
C) everyone else is doing it.
D) an appeal to higher loyalties.
E) entitlement.