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by wolverine876 992 days ago
That assumes the laws are fairly made and just, and therefore people who don't conform to them are doing something harmful.

If a company successfully lobbied and bribed the legislature to pass a law gving the company a monopoly on book publishing and sales, and someone bought books elsewhere, would that someone be doing something wrong? Are they harming that poor victim of a company?

Life isn't as simple as a hypothetical, of course, but it's also not as simple as assuming everything is just and fair.