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Balated response to your Edit:

I think you're still lumping together different actions with different moral qualities. Just because they happen near the same time or are perpetrated by the same person doesn't mean that they should be evaluated together.

If Jean Valjean steals a bread and a watch, but if the watch was completely unnecessary to feed his family, his stealing of the bread might still be justified. If he helps a little girl escape from abuse while he himself is on the run, that doesn't mean that he was wrong to help her, nor that it was okay for him to lie about his identity. He did a good thing and a bad thing at the same time, just like the rest of us do all the time.



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