There are a lot of people very ready and eager to defend actions that they find literally unspeakable.
These people cannot say the actions they are endorsing because these are thought experiments to them: Theoretical people with Theoretical suffering in a Theoretical paradigm.
None of the people suffering, being shot next to their baby who is left abandoned, those cowering and crying in bomb shelters, opening the door for who they think to be their protector only to be massacred, kidnapped women and children... They considser none of them real, which is why they can be so casually condemned to these unspeakable horrors.
Those so devoid of humanity deserve pity, but not given credence or further consideration.
Our time and energy is best spent on those who are not so ready to abandon their humanity.