[Hasu]

For the same reason people don't think it's OK to rob a bank and donate the money to charity.

[gruez]

That analogy fails because robbing a bank is straightforwardly illegal and norm-breaking (by the majority of the population), whereas being a tobacco executive isn't.

[layer8]

Unethical behavior not being treated as norm-breaking unless its illegal is part of what’s being criticized here, I think.

[ClumsyPilot]

Not if you ask the younger generation

[worik]

> For the same reason people don't think it's OK to rob a bank and donate the money to charity.

I have a problem with violence...