My point is, if everyone took the view of "well, it's legal, so it's fine", then we WOULD have a shit and depressing society. Fortunately, we still have lots of thoroughly decent people who don't have such a self-centred view of the world, and will go above and beyond to help their fellow man in...
I think some people are misunderstanding each other's point in this thread.
If you go travelling in a country where the age of consent is 14, does that mean that the second you set foot in that country, your views on whether it is acceptable for a 44 year old man to have sex with a 14 year old...
Eh? My point is I don't agree with the argument of "It's legally fine, so it's fine" as that leads to a monumentally shit and depressing society where no one does anything out of pure kindness, we'd just do "what we can get away with". My point is not specifically about Tax at all, not about how...
"It's legal, so it's fine morally" is an odd way of seeing things for me.
Legality and morality are two totally different things. It's legally fine for me to let doors swing shut in people's faces, to cut people up on the roads, to ignore homeless people etc. But it would still make me a shit...