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The claim was that the remote purchase was unfair because there was a law against it.

It is a valid claim, I still fail to see what point you are making? You seem to think that breakkng the rules isn't cheating and that making up a random and unrelated stupid rule somehow makes that point?

That's my best guess and it isn't very flattering so perhaps you should try making your point more directly.

Ok, very direct: just because something is illegal does not mean it is unfair, and you can test this by hypothesizing what else could be made illegal but which would not change the fairness of the process.

It’s true that that concept being hard to process is not very flattering.

When you break the rules of a game in a way that can impact the outcome of the game, that is called "cheating" and is most definitely not fair.

If you're trying to argue for a concept, you'll be much more effective if you lay it out initially rather than starting the way that you did.

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