Well, if people can even successfully defend against murder charges if they acted in self-defense, to preserve one's own life, why should they not be able to de

Well, if people can even successfully defend against murder charges if they acted in self-defense, to preserve one's own life, why should they not be able to defend against piracy/drug laws if the alternative is death? Some medicines are too expensive, in absence of a proper public health system, and being unable to pay means certain death to some people.