see, this is an example of how it should be, instead of people who conflate "understanding motives" with "approving of motives"

I couldn't say the number of times I've been downvoted and shat upon for answering the question "what were they thinking / why did they do this?" with a plausible reason for somebody else's actions. but it's high enough to have pissed me off enough to mostly just hate people until they show me otherwise (among many other reasons) nowadays