In issues like this it's very difficult and almost impossible to have a balance, people are different, societies have different laws guiding it's citizens, so I think when we talk about balance we should speak with respect to what is acceptable in any society and with any individual.

Individuals act based on what they think is acceptable with their conscience and what the general society holds true and acceptable within limits of moral conscience.

There are situation where some persons find themselves intermingled in very difficult situation where evading societal principles becomes the only escape route. Hence they become faulted on the scale of balance.

Issues like this will continue to arise in our societies and we mustn't turn deaf ears to individual differences.
We'll not want to delve into other aspects of why we have rules, who makes the rules, and whether the rules are made to guide the society or the society made to follow the rules. All this are controversies that must be resolved under dialogue considering individual differences.