The first step to stop justifying is, of course, to realize the advantages of not justifying. See brain, moderating the free will debate and moderating the Gaia/Medea debate. One difficulty in stopping justification, probably its biggest difficulty, is social pressure to justify. That social pressure to justify comes from various forms of blaming, demanding of accountability, questions about whose fault something was, and other things like those. Svenska: Tips för att sluta rättfärdiga