anthropodicies

Noun

anthropodicy (countable and uncountable, plural anthropodicies)

1. An attempt, or an argument attempting, to justify that human beings are fundamentally good despite the commission of evil acts by some people.
   • [T]he next two [devices or arguments] urge that these distresses are the prices paid for certain compensating advantages to the animals, notably existence. I have some difficulty believing that they are seriously intended, for they would, without alteration, justify the vilest imaginable human...1977, Stephen R[ichard] L[yster] Clark, “Devices of the Heathen”, in The Moral Status of Animals, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59