No.  No, there CANNOT be some unknown fact or unseen line of inference which justifies this.  This is a not a novel whose elaborate lesson will turn out to be about the importance of perspective-taking and appreciating that other people may have unseen knowledge and arguments that you can't imagine but still paints them in a much better light than you first thought.  If this were a novel, which nobody would ever buy, it would be a novel whose lesson was that there are SOME THINGS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEM AND YOU CAN AND SHOULD BECOME UPSET WITHOUT FURTHER HESITATION.

She has just seen a woman restrained so that she can't get away, can't even move, as one man - who had a - that he was using on her unprotected - while another man was violating her - you do not get to reveal hidden arguments why that is acceptable to do to anyone under any circumstances ever.  Nobody, not even somebody who'd wantonly murdered a city, not even somebody who'd done that to someone else, let alone some society-designated "submissive" who didn't want to obey any more.  It would be a case of something where the author shouldn't even put it into the story's worldbuilding, because even as an example of evil it would traumatize the readers and numb their moral sensibilities to saner sins, and if there was the slightest hint that the author thought it could even possibly maybe be okay, if it looked like the sequel was being set up to reveal a clever argument for why this was a perfectly okay thing to have happen in society, the correct coordinated response would be to burn the book.

No.  No, there CANNOT be some unknown fact or unseen line of inference which justifies this.  This is a not a novel whose elaborate lesson will turn out to be about the importance of perspective-taking and appreciating that other people may have unseen knowledge and arguments that you can't imagine but still paints them in a much better light than you first thought.  If this were a novel, which nobody would ever buy, it would be a novel whose lesson was that there are SOME THINGS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEM AND YOU CAN AND SHOULD BECOME UPSET WITHOUT FURTHER HESITATION.

She has just seen a woman restrained so that she can't get away, can't even move, as one man - who had a - that he was using on her unprotected - while another man was violating her - you do not get to reveal hidden arguments why that is acceptable to do to anyone under any circumstances ever.  Nobody, not even somebody who'd wantonly murdered a city, not even somebody who'd done that to someone else.  It would be a case of something where the author shouldn't even put it into the story's worldbuilding, because even as an example of evil it would traumatize the readers and numb their moral sensibilities to saner sins, and if there was the slightest hint that the author thought it could even possibly maybe be okay, if it looked like the sequel was being set up to reveal a clever argument for why this was a perfectly okay thing to have happen in society, the correct coordinated response would be to burn the book.

No.  No, there CANNOT be some unknown fact or unseen line of inference which justifies this.  This is a not a novel whose elaborate lesson will turn out to be about the importance of perspective-taking and appreciating that other people may have unseen knowledge and arguments that you can't imagine but still paints them in a much better light than you first thought.  If this were a novel, which nobody would ever buy, it would be a novel whose lesson was that there are SOME THINGS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEM AND YOU CAN AND SHOULD BECOME UPSET WITHOUT FURTHER HESITATION.

She has just seen a woman restrained so that she can't get away, can't even move, as one man - who had a - that he was using on her unprotected - while another man was violating her - you do not get to reveal hidden arguments why that is acceptable to do to anyone under any circumstances ever.  Nobody, not even somebody who'd wantonly murdered a city, not even somebody who'd done that to someone else.  It would be a case of something where the author shouldn't even put it into the story's worldbuilding, because even as an example of evil it would traumatize the readers and numb their moral sensibilities to saner sins, and if there was the slightest hint that the author thought it could even possibly maybe be okay, if it looked like the sequel was being set up to reveal a clever argument for why this was a perfectly okay thing to have happen in society, the correct coordinated response would be to burn the book.  You do not get to put that into your fun thought experiment for what a different possible society could maybe think was okay.

No.  No, there CANNOT be some unknown fact or unseen line of inference which justifies this.  This is a not a novel whose elaborate lesson will turn out to be about the importance of perspective-taking and appreciating that other people may have unseen knowledge and arguments that you failed to imagine and which paints them in a much better light than you first thought.  If this were a novel, which nobody would ever buy, it would be a novel whose lesson was that there are SOME THINGS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEM AND YOU CAN AND SHOULD BECOME UPSET WITHOUT FURTHER HESITATION.

She has just seen a woman restrained so that she can't get away, can't even move, as one man - who had a - that he was using on her unprotected - while another man was violating her - you do not get to reveal hidden arguments why that is acceptable to do to anyone under any circumstances ever.  Nobody, not even somebody who'd wantonly murdered a city, not even somebody who'd done that to someone else.  It would be a case of something where the author shouldn't even put it into the story's worldbuilding, because even as an example of evil it would traumatize the readers and numb their moral sensibilities to saner sins, and if there was the slightest hint that the author thought it could even possibly maybe be okay, if it looked like the sequel was being set up to reveal a clever argument for why this was a perfectly okay thing to have happen in society, the correct coordinated response would be to burn the book.  You do not get to put that into your fun thought experiment for what a different possible society could maybe think was okay.

No.  No, there CANNOT be some unknown fact or unseen line of inference which justifies this.  This is a not a novel whose elaborate lesson will turn out to be about the importance of perspective-taking and appreciating that other people may have unseen knowledge and arguments that you failed to imagine and which paints them in a much better light than you first thought.  If this were a novel, which nobody would ever buy, it would be a novel whose lesson was that there are SOME THINGS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WONDER IF THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEM AND YOU CAN AND SHOULD BECOME UPSET WITHOUT FURTHER HESITATION.

She has just seen a woman restrained so that she can't get away, can't even move, as one man - who had a - that he was using on her unprotected - while another man was violating her - you do not get to reveal hidden arguments why that is acceptable to do to anyone under any circumstances ever.  Nobody, not even somebody who'd wantonly murdered a city, not even somebody who'd done that to someone else.  It would be a case of something where the author shouldn't even put it into the story's worldbuilding, because even as an example of evil it would traumatize the readers and numb their moral sensibilities to saner sins, and if there was the slightest hint that the author thought it could even possibly maybe be okay, if it looked like the sequel was being set up to reveal a clever argument for why this was a perfectly okay thing to have happen in society, the correct coordinated response would be to ban the book.  You do not get to put that into your fun thought experiment for what a different possible society could maybe think was okay.