To avenge a wrong is the whole purpose of law. In this respect, skullduggery has no limp-wristed substitute. You can't defeat tyranny by whining about it . Another thing that bums, scoundrels and pirates have in common is their lack of compassion. If you earn their respect, they will watch your back and defend you in every conceivable way, like blood brothers in spirit.
Skullduggery is too dangerous an enterprise to indulge much compassion or welfare state nannying.
Children are expected to sink or swim, like everybody else, when they are old enough to think and are biologically no longer children. Since I've mentioned it repeatedly, perhaps it's time to define skullduggery. I initially addressed this topic philosophically in Human Goodness Proven Beyond Doubt . There is no intrinsic merit in life. Men routinely kill, because our lives are continually at risk.