Sykes and Matza Classified Excuses and Justifications That Provide a Moral

Sykes and Matza classified excuses and justifications that provide a moral release into multiple types, which they called 'techniques of neutralization.' In the technique of ___________, it is suggested that the law is not reflecting the popular will, and since everyone engages in, say, tax evasion, pilfering from the office, extramarital sex, and so on, then such acts are not really deviant and therefore are not wrong.

A) claim of relative acceptability
B) claim of entitlement
C) claim of normality
D) condemnation of the condemners