Lowering your expectations for low-income households and treating people that come from them as if they're too stupid and/or broken to not commit crimes is wrong is offensive. There's a difference between acknowledging the value free education, cheap housing, and money for food and outright turning a blind eye to opportunists and criminals.
>If you're a druggie and need money for a fix.
How is that your or my problem? You get yourself addicted to drugs. If someone mugs my girlfriend and trades her phone for some heroin, I don't understand why I'm supposed to shrug it off, feel sympathy for the criminal, and let that junkie make someone else live in fear so they can get high.
>there a forces that prod some people towards classes of crimes. That goes the other way too, for example considering tax evasion.
Muggings, rapes, and violent crime have drastically different effects on people than the taxman putting a lower number in a ledger. Trying to conflate crimes that happen to a person with financial loopholes is apologetics for violent criminals.
>Or say you're in the country illegally.
Then don't come to the country illegally if you're going to do destructive things against the people that you want to help you.
>If you're a druggie and need money for a fix.
How is that your or my problem? You get yourself addicted to drugs. If someone mugs my girlfriend and trades her phone for some heroin, I don't understand why I'm supposed to shrug it off, feel sympathy for the criminal, and let that junkie make someone else live in fear so they can get high.
>there a forces that prod some people towards classes of crimes. That goes the other way too, for example considering tax evasion.
Muggings, rapes, and violent crime have drastically different effects on people than the taxman putting a lower number in a ledger. Trying to conflate crimes that happen to a person with financial loopholes is apologetics for violent criminals.
>Or say you're in the country illegally.
Then don't come to the country illegally if you're going to do destructive things against the people that you want to help you.