Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Zeckler frowned. "And how do they regard the—the biggest liar? I mean, how do they feel toward him?" Zeckler was on his feet, his eyes suddenly bright with excitement. Zeckler's eyes flashed, and a huge grin broke out on his "No, no, I've got a problem in the bag!" Zeckler's cheeks and the judge banged the gavel for silence. As soon as Zeckler gaunt face of the prisoner. Zeckler's face was dark with a The judge stared down at Zeckler as if he were a bug on a Zeckler looked sharply around the hushed room. "You want to convict me," he said softly, "in the worst sort of way. Isn't Zeckler's eyes widened. "What do you mean, fool? So I to set me up for life!" "Really," said Harry Zeckler loftily, "it was so obvious I'm You've committed a crime here—a major crime. The Altairians are sore about it. And the Terran Consulate isn't willing to sell all the trading possibilities here down the river just to get you out of a mess. You're going to stand trial—and these Zeckler stood up shakily. "You can't believe anything the Earthmen in exactly the same class, too." "So what's honor among thieves? I got off, didn't I?" "You've committed the most heinous crime these creatures can a trading alliance with Altair I, and that includes uranium, too. Smart people don't gamble with loaded dice. You scared them so badly they don't want anything to do with us." Zeckler fished in the other man's pocket, extracted a cigarette, "Ah, well. After all, the Trading Alliance was Zeckler's grin broadened, and he leaned back luxuriously. your outlook, wasn't it? What a pity!" He clucked his tongue sadly. "Me, I've got a fortune in credits sitting back at the consulate waiting for me—enough to keep me on silk for quite a while, I might say. I think I'll just take a nice, long vacation." to keep you from botching things up still worse for the Trading Commission, that's all. I wouldn't get tangled up in a mess oblige. They wanted to execute you outright. Thought a trial Zeckler went white. "But that money was in banking custody!" count. Trading brought scalpers it was almost inevitable that A choking sound came from Zeckler's throat. " where rich and unexploited trading ground was uncovered, it from Terra with the first wave of exploration—the slick, fast-talking "Oh, yes. Didn't I tell you? Conspiring to undermine the would first fall prey to the fast-trading boys. They spread out planets. The first men in were the richest out, and through some curious quirk of the Terrestrial mind, they knew they could count on Terran protection, however crooked and Zeckler spluttered. "There's no evidence—you've got nothing underhand their methods. social practices of the alien victims made it unwise to tamper with them. Altair I had been recognized at once by the Trading Commission as a commercial prize of tremendous value, but early reports had warned of the danger of wildcat trading on the little, musty, jungle-like planet with its shaggy, three-eyed inhabitants—warned specifically against the confidence tactics But occasionally a situation arose where the civilization and Zeckler puffed nervously on his cigarette, his narrow face credits, pulled a little fast business." He shrugged eloquently, spreading his hands. "Everybody's doing it. They do it to each Zeckler shrugged again. "The simplest, tiredest, moldiest these critters didn't want bridges. They wanted land—this gooey, slimy swamp they call 'farm land.' So I gave them what they wanted. I just sold them some land." in their economy, not money nothing but land. To get land, it's every man for himself, and the loser starves, and their entire legal and monetary system revolves on that principle. barter and trade imaginable, aimed at individual survival, with land as the value behind the credit. That explains the lying—of con-men who could work new territories unfettered by they're pathological! Only a fool would tell the truth when his life depended on his being a better liar than the next guy! Zeckler snorted. "But how could they the legal restrictions that soon closed down the more established " sold it to a dozen separate, self-centered, half-starved natives! Encroachment on private property is legal grounds for murder on this planet, and twelve of them descended on the same authority of the Terran Trading Commission. Serious charge, Zeckler was visibly shaken. "Look," he said weakly, "so I you know. Yes, I think we'll take a nice long vacation together, straight back to Terra. And there I think you'll face a jury with seats facing the bench. Zeckler followed the shaggy-haired Altairians attempted to push through the door at once. Zeckler prosecutor eyed Zeckler with cold malevolence, then turned down at Zeckler with all three eyes, and pounded the bench top judge's voice roared out, "against one Harry Zeckler—" he Goddess Zermat, Queen of the Harvest. Conspiracy with the and bribery—" The judge pounded the bench for order—"Espionage with the accursed scum of Altair II in preparation for interplanetary invasion." " Zeckler was on his feet, wild-eyed. Zeckler leaned over, his face ashen. "These charges," he Zeckler's face, another on the prosecutor, and closing the third Zeckler—"stopped me in my tracks with a vicious cry. He had "Objection!" Zeckler squealed plaintively, jumping to his The witness glowered at Zeckler. "As I was saying before "I never saw him before in my life," Zeckler moaned to pogrom, it seemed, had been accomplished by an energy It's stupid, to them, silly, a mark of Zeckler jerked around abruptly as he heard his name bellowed "Do I have—" Zeckler was across the room in a flash, his "Your lives, your land, everything you hold dear," Zeckler to be perfectly true. But in every instance, I was working with heart and soul, risking my life, for the welfare of your beautiful planet." There was a loud hiss from the back of the court. Zeckler a grave mistake, but as it turned out, a very fortunate error. Because in attempting to arrange trading in that frightful place, I made certain contacts." His voice trembled, and sank lower. planet, at the hands of those barbarians. The conspiracy is theirs, not mine. They have bribed your Goddess, flattered her and lied to her, coerced her all-powerful goodness to their own evil interests, preparing for the day when they could persuade guffawed, until the rising tide of racket drowned out Zeckler's Zeckler grew paler. "But—perhaps they were very clever—" Somehow, Zeckler managed to stumble from the witness Zeckler puffed hungrily on a cigarette, and looked up at Zeckler sat in silence for a moment. "This lying business,"

<question>:
What motivates people like Zeckler to commit such crimes as he committed?

<options>:
A New interplanetary laws created more incentive to commit crimes in vulnerable areas than they offered protection from such crimes.
B Representatives from the Trading Commission set up an operation to hire and arrest con men in order to secure resources without being indicted.
C The interplanetary laws made it easy for wealthy corporations and entities to prey upon those they considered less civilized and intelligent.
D The Trading Commission offered monetary compensation for whoever was willing to secure unexploited trading ground on neighboring planets.

<answer>:

A