It works in small scale too. Couple weeks ago I volunteered at a parish to process (categorize) donated clothing before distribution. The married women there would occasionally take something nice and separate it for themselves or their family. When you're doing ”a good deed” it's easier to justify some things to yourself.
What a gigantic can of worms you opened. Here's my favorite 3 anime series as of late
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Ascendance of a Bookworm. It's about a girl who loves books and wants nothing more than to be a librarian and live surrounded by books. She dies and is reborn into the body of a peasant child in a medieval-like world with no printing press, no plant-based paper and only expensive animal parchment. Her family cannot read/write, they are extremely poor and the girl has a sickly body that falls into fever for days by walking down the street. She decides she'll do whatever it takes to get her wish of living around books.
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Mushoku Tensei / Jobless reincarnation. Loser dies and gets a second chance in a world of swords and magic. Sounds generic but it doesn't rush through his youth, you care about the characters, and women have actual personalities. Best classical adventure isekai I've seen yet.
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I'm a spider, so what? Girl gets transported into a nightmare subterranean world as a spider monster, has to claw her way out through fighting and suffering. It's fun to see her do her thing.
She's already ruined herself. There's no enabling to be done.
treating egregious offenses as forgivable
What is to be forgiven if not something that actually hurts? Anything that calls for forgiveness is going to be an "egregious offense". One must be able to forgive and love one's enemies even as they pile the lumber on your burning stake. This is the law of love of our Lord.
Yeah some crypto fake-value bubble-aspirant is just trying to cash into a trend.