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Yet another example of when you have money, normal rules no longer apply to you.



That helps, but simply doing something that nobody has anticipated is often sufficient. If enough people like what you did, technicalities often fall by the wayside.


There is criminal and there is civil. Just because something is illegal (speeding, jay walk-ing) doesn’t mean I’m some sort of psychopath for ignoring those laws - I make a calculation about how likely it is I’ll be caught vs. time saved.

Similarly a business looks at a penalty and makes a judgement. This isn’t some insane immoral concept.


>There is criminal and there is civil.

Okay, but everything you said after that has nothing to do with that statement.

You choosing to break laws has nothing to do with criminal vs civil. It has everything to do with where your moral compass points. You choose to break rules because you've decided to do that based on whatever moral integerity you do/don't have.


Sure but many laws are ridiculous and immoral. See slavery segregation anti-women laws etc. etc. People love to get in their moral high horse when it suits them (“Business bad!”) but conveniently ignore it in other cases.




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