...they say as an example that the underworld exists because there is poverty, people dying of hunger who take to the streets to steal, because if they don't they die, but they miss two things; the majority of the poor don't do "everything" to survive, only a minority;
People don't immediately choose crime if there are horrifying legal options (dangerous or unpleasant work) available to them.
...and most criminals are not in the lowest part of the social pyramid, but are rich and powerful, who steal more, kill more, and do more damage to society each one of them, than all the "poor criminals" united.
I agree 100% with you on this point.
Yeah, but everyone really has options, just that some prefer to do morally reprehensible things and others don't.
There are situations where there really are no other options, although they are admittedly rare.
Also, there are also (less rare) situations where the LAW ITSELF is immoral.
For example,
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