The Nazi War crimes trials gave us that answer. An immoral decision remains immoral even if coerced under life threatening circumstances. The claim by Nazi defendants that they lacked responsibility for immoral, criminal acts was thrown out of court at the Nazi War Crimes trials in Nuremberg. They tried to separate their 'immoral' army actions from what they claimed was a 'moral' private life by arguing that they were coerced and thus acting 'amorally'. The Court rejected their argument as a defense.
Coerced evil is still evil .
Nor does evil have to be all encompassing of an actor's decision making process for him to qualify as evil. Even Hitler is said to have loved his dog, little children and art. There is no conflict between this writer and the profession as to what lawyers are instructed to do. We agree that in counseling their clients lawyers are instructed to act as if they are either indifferent to morals or lack morals completely. The only issue is whether that behavior means that they in fact have no morals .