An aspect of the received morality in a lot of circles around here seems to be: circumstances can excuse immoral actions, but only if those circumstances are unpleasant.
Which is pretty hard to justify in any principled way.
If I were feeling uncharitable, I'd call this "a form of retro-catholicism, which holds that suffering earns you coupons you can spend on being bad without it counting"
and I am so I just did
















