The cruelest tyrants could never perpetrate their atrocities without large support groups of men who don't mind executing grisly orders, as long as they are covered by official authorization. Crime thrives wherever there is no individual responsibility, or where intrinsically criminal acts are made legal. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society. No wonder their ethics are so flexible. And they keep adding new victims to their roster.
Any number can play.
The real victim, of course, is the taxpayer. As Bastiat wrote, the moral test of any law is whether it enables the state to commit what would be a crime for a private citizen. If you have no right to rob your neighbor, you have no right to ask the state to tax him for your benefit. They've stolen everything else.