Can you give some examples of where you're going with that?
The question started after I saw a video of some normal-looking pedestrian traipsing down a sidewalk veer off and pinch a package from someone's porch.
It got me thinking how many "otherwise law-abiding people" will turn criminal if the opportunity arose.
look at 2 things
1 the incidence of people who will return money when they find it and there is no one around to notice
2 the cultural norm of how people explain away the theft of things that have been left-behind or dropped by someone and the "a fool & their money, scam related concepts " are normalised into acceptable moral conduct processes.
while the moral & social code defines a larger percentage of people who expect people should be punished for being to gullible or forgetful, there is a larger group who seek to "do the right thing" for their own moral conscience" which swing the balance back toward the center a bit.
many things in life are not fair.
taking advantage of others when the situation presents its self is called capitalism and initiative & ambition.
however that is most often explained away to become something ethereal when in a corporate context to side with the company being stolen from as a legitimate victim that should never be punished for being lazy or forgetful.
unlike the private citizen and their money and assets.
groups, group norms, social group behaviour, spectator effect...
its a long study into human psychology which is not entirely good news for a semi ambivalent child like mind bent toward brutal honesty and personal cost leveraging "do the right thing" type actions.
countrys that have a higher standard of living have a much more honest society.
people can afford to be honest and afford to spend money to give things back to others and help less fortunate people out.
it is no surprise that illegal financial immigrants wish to target such society's to exploit them by becoming a low level criminal.
they see it as a society that throws away money because they make criminality so easy.