When you view something as extremely morally important, you're willing to cross a lot of moral boundaries and make a lot of rationalizations. Full moral consis

When you view something as extremely morally important, you're willing to cross a lot of moral boundaries and make a lot of rationalizations. Full moral consistency is almost impossible: you're always balancing self-interests with other higher ideals, etc., and there's always some dissonance. This is just a more problematic example of people striking that kind of moral balance.