Justifying any act of banditry or aggression by the simple fact of survival puts us in the corner of "irrational beings", instinctive, acting without thinking
Base animals - mindless to anything but the programming.
Can you imagine that by hunger everyone can steal or that by self defense we can attack or kill? Then why justice?
It is the contradiction of behavior - punishment for you, reward for me.
This is the type of stance that many governments use to manipulate, to create resentments, to win followers and to win elections.
And we support it.