> I'd say any government willing to break so many of it's own laws is the problem.
And when the breaking of laws becomes too onerous or attracts too much attention, they simply change the law to make their behavior legal, e.g. NDAA in the USA.
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And when the breaking of laws becomes too onerous or attracts too much attention, they simply change the law to make their behavior legal, e.g. NDAA in the USA.
It does, and the cases are not comparable. Leaving an empty space (plus marginal cost) where the car used to be requires the original owner to expend time and effort to replace it, and they have opportunity cost as well. None of that is true of the digital example. To be a fair comparison you'd have to leave an atom-for-atom identical replacement for the car (or more accurately, take an identical copy and leave the original) and I doubt as many people would judge that unethical.