At the risk of steelmanning in an ITT-failing way: substitute “justifies” with “makes it seem like a pretty reasonable way to feel about humans and have first-order-reasonable motives to do that sort of stuff to humans”.
At the risk of steelmanning in an ITT-failing way: substitute “justifies” with “makes it seem like a pretty reasonable way to feel about humans and have first-order-reasonable motives to do that sort of stuff to humans”.