An idea from Summa Theologica

Human law is written for a crowd, most of whom aren’t very virtuous. So human laws do not forbid all vices, only the graver ones most people can avoid, chiefly those that hurt others. A law that asks for perfect virtue would push people into worse evils.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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