In certain circumstances, is some crime understandable ( and laudable )?

[Kyuuketsuki]

The question being the crime being understandable, so in the situation of your starving and you see someone who can go without some of their food, yes it would be understandable to take it. It would not change the morality of things though, while I obviously cannot speak for anyone else if I was the person starving I would still see it as a bad thing to steal

OK, that's the example most people seem to be using, but what about other more tricky ones where one's life is not in danger? What about, for example, the suffragettes?

Suffragettes engaged in criminal actions to gain the vote that was denied them at the time ... was this understandable? To many of the day no, to a minority now probably still no but to us today it was "obviously" correct because women are now equal in just about every legal sense (even if it is imperfectly executed). Yet they were criminals because crime is a legal distinction much as murder is.

What about those people who climb up on power stations to spread an environmental message? What about the Fathers group who do super hero impressions all over buildings? Both groups are criminals in the sense (I suppose) of trespass.

What about those Germans who helped Jews escape in the second world war? I assume (don't know) that that was illegal and so they were criminals.

Kyu