If the Last Rather Big War should have taught us anything, it's that, in a society based on reason, the people doing bad things will have well-justified reasons for doing these things. Which is why justification isn't enough. It does come down to an ineluctable conflict between the people doing bad things and the people living in a better way, but only the prople doing bad things think that it's therefore just a conflict between equally valid subjectivities -- they think this because they realize that both types find their own thinking to be justified. But the people living in a better way generally don't ground their conduct in the justification or approval of those around them. The better person prevails not because they're more justified, or stronger, but because the only possible ground for the good is mind-independent. We use our minds to reach the good. The malefactor does what he can get away with; the good person does what he can accomplish.
