>>>I'm curious how far breaking the law is ok in your view then. What else is it ok for them to do? Rob a bank? Steal from the grocery store? Steal a car? Break into homes and steal another person's belongings? Anything they think they need to do for a better economic life?
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>>Funny how "breaking the law" suddenly gets explained via straight theft from a person. I somehow never see embezzlement, corporate fraud, Ponzi schemes, buying laws, Microsoft etc. As if any of these aren't a convincing example.
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>we have our very own fraudster returned here. Asil Nadir
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>He's been in North Cyprus (no extradition) for 17 years but I think now feels they will have trouble trying him.
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>So despite fleeing bail he returns not to prison but to a luxury rented house in Mayfair.

My question was why are these guys never taken as an example when pointing out the difference between good and bad, i.e. respecting and ignoring the law? It's always exemplified by stealing from your neighbor, from a parking, from a supermarket... the examples are geared towards little people and what may cross their minds. It's "don't steal", probably because it's a short traditional verb, it's never "don't buy a business to get big loans on it which you will then put in your pocket and then let the business go bankrupt, making hundreds of families homeless and some of their breadwinners to commit suicide", "don't take money to write a law which would close thousands of small businesses", "don't make your armies do what your corporate backers bid" or anything as complicated as that.

In the era of soundbites, anything that can't fit on a button.caption won't work.