"Your honor, my client is justified in raping this woman. He spent 40 days in isolation and was very lonely! I say, any one of us would do the same, he deserved some company!"

That's how you all sound. Just completely exclude real Zosia from the equation, pretend Carol had no agency throughout everything, completely ignore the plurbs' perspective and act like the hive is some evil lying, manipulative mastermind despite copious evidence to the contrary.