I think it is too. It reminds me of a passage in one of Bill Bryson's books - one where he's travelling Europe - and he says that the whole concept of Amsterdam's liberality is like someone who's argued themselves extensively into an untenable position. You have to keep arguing, even though you know it'a fundamentally wrong.
I work in a large, inner city primary school where we regularly have parents arrested for involvement in human trafficking. It's fucking awful.