system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Batman Begins] The league of shadow wanted to fight criminals but also bankrupted Gotham and believed that if you create enough hunger everyone will become a criminal. Isn't that entrapment at a grand scale?
gpt
They saw Gotham itself as a problem that needed to be fixed. The city was broken and corrupt and churning out criminals so it needed to be destroyed. 

I don't think they were trying to access a loophole to justify fighting more criminals by making more criminals. They just saw a problem and thought total destruction was the solution.