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No, my premise is that whoever is doing it bears full moral responsibility for it, unless they're literally forced into it.

You are going to die someday, right? How close do you have to be to deaths door for it to be morally okay for me to smother you with a pillow[1]? It was going to happen anyway, why would it matter that I did it?

1. Or carbon monoxide mask, if the distress of asphyxiation is throwing you off the from point I'm trying to make

"Someone else will just do this thing anyway, so I might as well do it" is a fairly weak excuse. I doubt it would hold up as a defense of a crime.

"If I don't, someone else will" can be said about pretty much anything, it is not an ethical get-out-of-jail-free card.

You can justify anything after the fact with this reasoning.