Nairalanders, pls I am seeking your opinion on this issue. I was wondering if we really get to the point of 'I don't have a choice as a reason to carry out a misdeed or do people just play on others sentimentality to attract sympathy for their plight.
An example is when a woman is told at her workplace to partake in a fraud (of which she will benefit from) and when she refuses, she is told her children will be killed. The fraud goes on and she is caught (this is hypothetical). When asked why she did it, she replies 'I didn't have a choice'.
Is this really true? There are other cases like that even more sympathetic than this one. And u will hear people even defending the person with statements like; if u were in her shoes, wouldn't u do the same thing!