Teaching others to rationalize?

In today's Gospel (Mt. 5:17-19), our Lord says,

"Do not think that I have come
to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.

"Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place.

"Therefore, whoever breaks
one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do so
will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven.

"But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments
will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."

Some people take isolated verses of St. Paul out of context to rationalize their inattention to revealed moral truths.

Rationalization is easy and it is then one short step to teach others to rationalize as we do (trying thus to quiet our wounded consciences).

The better path, the path of growth, is to challenge - first ourselves and then others - with gentleness and firmness, to embody ever more perfectly the moral truths revealed by God and fulfilled in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.