The same way with other crimes, isn't it?
And so on, down to mere misdemeanours, till you come to ordinary morality.

Now what have you got to say?
If it isn't much better for the people themselves to lead decent lives just for money's sake, it's certainly much better for everybody else that they should.

That appears to me to be unanswerable.

You didn't start in with the idea of making those poor things just like you, I suppose.

You can't train a cart-horse to win the Derby.