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Let's hear first from the defense of Dudley and Stevens.
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Why would you morally exonerate them?
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What are your reasons?
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Yes.
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I think it is morally reprehensible
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but I think that there is a distinction between what's morally reprehensible
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and what makes someone legally accountable.
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In other words, as the judge said,
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what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law
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and while I don't think that necessity
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justifies theft or murder or any illegal act,
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at some point your degree of necessity