"someone else started it" Just seems like elementary school excuses. If I even assume that's just true "we're despots too, just like them!!!" is that supposed

"someone else started it" Just seems like elementary school excuses. If I even assume that's just true "we're despots too, just like them!!!" is that supposed to be a selling point to me or something? If it's wrong, it's wrong, that's it, that's how values work.