It is a sympathetic motive for a man to steal money to buy medicine for his child. Honestly, I would probably do the same if I were in that situation despite knowing it was wrong. Maybe that has something to do with what Dr. Mitchell said about Machiavelli's effect on the modern, or maybe it is just part of human nature.
The act of doing wrongs to come about a right is a bit hypocritical. A show comes to mind when I think of this; in it a young man decides to overthrow an empire of darwinistic xenophobes in order to create a better world for his sickly younger sister to live in. Sounds noble but the methods he used were manipulation, blackmail, and terrorism that killed innocents. At the same time his best friend from childhood joined the empire's army to attempt to bring about change from the inside. Yet despite all his talk he couldn't seem to walk; never once did he really try to change anything, he just followed orders. At one point the first guy even wonders which of the two is the biggest hypocrite.
The point I'm trying to get across is that humans, because of the taint of sin, live in a hypocritical manner. Maybe I'm idealistic but I think most people want to do good. We just don't really know how to overcome things without twisting them, so the idea of "the ends justify the means" has come about as an attempt to justify that.
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Augustine had something to say on this subject remember? He had the idea that people desire to do good and to love somethings good, but they always try to achieve good by the wrong means which is evil...
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