According to your assigned reading, it is moral to treat lawbreakers who harm others and don't keep their agreements differently from citizens who abide by the law and social contract because

A. lawbreakers violate the social contract and the state must punish violators to encourage general others to keep, and not break, the social contract.

B. the state has a duty to protect citizens who keep the social contract from those who do not

C. lawbreakers do not abide by the reciprocal rules of the social contract and thus open themselves to punishment not afforded to those who conform to the rules of social living

D. all of the above

E. none of the above.