The means, in this case, don't violate any of my ethics checks, so I don't see any need to justify them, and nobody suggested my ethics in this case were off. The sole accusation of defection was on a misinterpretation of my behavior, that I was trying to make people less rational.

It's more a statement that I think the post was effective for its intended purposes, so I'm not too concerned about re-evaluating my methodology.

I should have separated that out into two paragraphs for clarity, I suppose.