A terrorist leader has recruited new volunteers and is addressing them. He tells them that their mission will "eliminate" many people but that they would be serving a higher purpose. He explains that their group's struggle depends on martyrs such as themselves. He goes on to say that their victims belong to a lesser class of people and refers to them with an insulting ethnic slur. He declares that they deserve to be eliminated. The new volunteers not only agree to take part in a suicide mission, they are happy to have been chosen.
By referring to the recruits as "martyrs" and saying that their mission will serve a higher purpose, leader is using which method of cognitive restructuring?

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The leader is using moral justification by framing the mission as serving a higher purpose and portraying the recruits as martyrs.

A Terrorist Leader Has Recruited New Volunteers and Is Addressing