[freeopinion]

See recent behavior of Wells Fargo before you dismiss this. They have built the largest consumer bank on practices that were not legal. Even after some of those practices have been exposed they are #1. Millions of people with multiple semi-truck tire marks on their bodies still bank with them.

[craftyguy]

I'm not saying that every for-profit company will abide by the law, but that they may have an inclination to do so because penalties would reduce their profits. So the comparison you are trying to make is not quite the same since there's a condition where a for-profit company might still do something ethically wrong (but legal) to make money, but avoid illegal behavior that would also make money (but cost them more if caught). For a recent example of this: facebook.