It's not a defense; just a (much) more grounded contextualization, in my view. This amounts to "other people are bad too". It's also not whataboutism. To sug

It's not a defense; just a (much) more grounded contextualization, in my view. This amounts to "other people are bad too". It's also not whataboutism. To suggest that it is amounts to, well, an "either/or" response. All I'm saying is: it seems you're trying to essentialize the woe and evil the world in a way I don't find valid or useful.