if its illegal is it really bad?

"Atticus, that's bad" I said. In Maycomb, hunting out of season was a misdemeanor at law, a capital felony in the eyes of the populace.
"it's against the law, all right" said my father.
"and its certainly bad but when a man spends his relief checks n pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit"
this means that it's okay to break the law when it depends on the life of your children. because yeah its wrong to hunt when its not the season but if  you need to feed your children it does not matter to break the law. (that is the opinion of atticus).
In my onion he does have a point in saying that but if you need to feed your children you do wherever you have to do to feed them. On the news theirs always people who sell drugs because they dont have any other opportunities to have money so they sell drugs.