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Who cares if it's legal? They just change the laws when the laws get in the way. It is certainly unjust however.

This is what legal positivism ends up turning into: anything is legal as long as there is a "law" allowing it. The fact that said law may be -f.e.- unconstitutional has nothing to do with the 'legality' of the act. Only when -if- a superior entity (the SCOTUS in this case) deems the 'law' unconstitutional does the act become 'illegal.'

So always win-win for the NSA.

I'm starting to question if morality and legality are considered the same by those in power? Honest question, although off topic and a bit esoteric.

Perhaps if one becomes comfortable with the idea that all illegal acts are immoral, it's possible to trick yourself into thinking that all legal acts are by definition moral.