"hmm, I'm poor and starving. Gotta work with the guy who gassed a movie theatre, no other options." In the same way we can judge poor people who join the military, we can also judge the fictional mooks who side with serial killers instead of holding up a gas station or joining one of the heist-themed villains. I guess there is the problem of a million different depictions and some do try and fix problems and others just like beating people up.