Optimising for desperation is great if you're building a criminal gang
in which most of the day-to-day activities go against a normal
person's good moral judgement.
One should generally prefer criminal gangs elected according to social contract, since they are basically "our* criminal gang.
As for moral relativism - not so much. There's enough consensus for judiciaries and criminologists to define objective criminal behaviours. I think you mean that we exercise more or less tolerance of the criminal behaviour of certain groups.