The holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
-- @lex_looper
-- @lex_looper
Defending potentially bad behaviour solely on the basis that it’s legal behaviour may not be the best defence (outside of a court of law.)
The point of the quote was to point out that laws aren't necessarily right.
And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing. I'm sure you would mind if I embezzled 1/2000th of Michigan's GDP.
A better comparison would be if you invoiced Michigan for 1/2000th of their GDP and the state and local governments paid it. In that case, I'm fine with it.
And neither is the public.
We once needed a law and show of force against public demonstrators to let black children into schools.
They were not comparing the activities.
Equating the legal system of Michigan with the legal system of Nazi Germany is ludicrously incorrect.