There were attempts at justification in the aftermath.
The corruption is so blatant, so indefensible, that attempts at justification are necessarily surreal".
However, while "none of this is really new," in earlier times at least some attempt at justification would accompany such censorship.
There were flashpoints, rightly so, regarding this – but (this is no attempt at justification) we had instructions from the people paying the wages, whose club it was and who selected and chose the (unpublished, obviously) door policy.
Attempts at justification of terrorism that concede that its victims are innocent seem more promising.
As Quine (1956 [1976], §V) observed, in the actual practice of choosing axioms for set theory, we seem to be left "making deliberate choices and setting them forth unaccompanied by any attempt at justification other than in terms of their elegance and convenience," appeals to the meanings of terms be hanged (although see Boolos' 1971 defense of the "iterative conception of set").
Failed Attempts at Justification.
He hands her the lottery ticket once meant to lead her to his buried fortune, now the grave of Hank Dean Norriss) and his fellow Drug Enforcement Administration agent, tells her to use it to make a deal with the DEA and begins what seems like a final attempt at justification.
"We are scrubbing the numbers, looking at the justifications, being sure we are dealing with the results of the hurricane and not other causes".
It is true that a book can never bear full responsibility for an act of violence; also that hateful literature can put ideas, or at least justifications for those ideas, in someone's mind, and so cannot be absolved completely.
