Suppose you had his environment and experiences.

You would then be precisely what he was, and where he was. For it is those things, and only those thing, that made him what he was. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren’t rattlesnakes.

“I don’t blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.”

you can say that and be 100 percent sincere.