Wrong. A game must be balanced around what is possible and not around the expectations that the player will not use certain options available to him.
When pickpocketing is possible it means the game must still work when the player pickpockets everything instead of becoming completely unbalanced, even if that means some entitled players whine that they can't have easy mode (besides setting the game to easy).
Ummm.. no it doesn't. It can balance around what is normal and ignore that players can do these things. Just don't do those things.
