Short answer is of course it is . But it’s not that simple. There is more to it than just that. So, I’m going to give examples. You are in a country with no social programs and harsh punishment for even miner crimes. This country does not allow circumstances to be weighed in court; they literally don’t care why you did it. You have a child and can’t feed it. No one has the means to give you their food or they just don’t care. You need to steal food to feed the child, or it will starve to death. If you are convicted, you spend 10 years in prison, and your child will be on its own and will not survive. There is only one path here that is moral, you take the food. There is deep risk to it, but if you do nothing, the child will die. The child may still die if you are arrested. However, obeying the law in this instance is morally incorrect. Those who think it’s not ever OK to break the law then have to choose to let a child die instead of allowing the parent to help it. This can easily be s...