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Eh, what's wrong with the dealer trick? He has the ability to do it, the law is written that way...what does it matter?

Irrespective of whether or not the dealer trick is right, your argument is unconvincing.

A non-exhaustive list of things which the law allows for and which many people have the ability to do:

* Call you names * Give you projects that are doomed to fail * Place you on a team which will drag you down * Use you as a scapegoat for the failure of a project * Use KLOC as a metric of performance * Show you the finger at a traffic light

And yet we don't approve of these things. Something being lawful is the bare minimum, not the gold standard.

None of those provide value. I think you're confusing a hack that only takes advantage of the government in a context where the government takes advantage of us and that's meant to provide value ultimately to someone else.

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