The words "rational“ and "rationalization“ have the same root. What you are saying is that, for example, all enlightenment is "deceptive“. And that is - of course - not true.
Political correctness, psychologism and sociologism, for example, are deceptive.
If you good reasons (for example healthy reasons) to rationalize your motive(s) foir killing insects, for example ( by the way: it was your example) , then this rationalization is not deceptive.
Health is always a good reason. It is good resp. okay and especially healthy to be self-preservative. No living being is capable of living without self-preservation. Life is self-preservation.
So I ask you: Why should it be better for you to be killed by other living beings (for example: insects)?
That’s right. And if you asked that insect and were capable of understanding its answer, then you would soon know that the insect would make the same statement as I do.
In an effort to be rational, I suspect that you should stick to this definition for “rationalization” in English:
The educated and rational man knows that it is the negative connotation of every nuance that is given higher priority regardless of the intent of the speaker.
Hence, all rationilzation is deceptive even if we take life is self preservation as the so called “meaning of life” (which is a rationilzation in itself).