In a hypothetical situation where person 1 commits a crime because person 2 threatened to kill his family and holds them at gunpoint, he would not be able to claim that he did not have the sufficient means real men. Their defense would be based on the recognition that the defendant's underlying reason for acting – to protect his family – provides him with a justifiable reason for what would otherwise be a crime. Furthermore, it is problematic to state that motive is irrelevant as motive is an essential ingredient in the mens rea for certain statutory sexual offences, where it must be shown that the accused acted for the purpose of sexual gratification, or to humiliate, distress or alarm those who report. . This is also of great importance in relation to a series of crimes provided for by law in which prejudicial reasons (based, for example, on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation) are specified as an aggravating form, deserving a more severe