Keithy said:
I love this wording. If the same thing were made illegal, would it be more wrong? What does the legality have anything to do with it? Does legal make it moral? A girl consented to sex because the man was pretending to be her boyfriend in a dark room. It's not illegal, is it moral? Certainly not. Why did you choose the wording you did? "Legally minimizing taxes."
This looks like an appeal to authority argument, which is not a valid clause.
In the unquoted section you say "wrong" but you're entitled to your opinion. But yet in the quoted section, you clearly lay out what your opinion is, and then are coming off as completely dismissive of others, invalidating a subjective case.
There really isn't a point to this. Then again, there isn't really a point to this whole thread. Just an observation.
I am not a moral authority, but I try to be conscious of what is illegal vs what is legal. Yes to a large extent what is illegal is also immoral; murder for example. The situation you described would be illegal in many places in the world. Is it immoral in most everyplace, but I can certainly imagine societies where it wouldn't considered immoral. I find argument about morality to be a waste of time. If people think something is immoral than they should focus on getting the law changed to make it illegal. Congress has had at least 15 years to change the law since this scheme was first publicized, obviously a majority of Congressman haven't been convinced it so bad that they've made it illegal. So in grey areas like this I say if it ain't illegal, it ain't immoral.
Lots of people think that what goes on ACF, much less MFC is immoral, (it is also illegal in many places in the world) being involved in an activity which many people consider immoral makes think three time before judging some others activity, pointing my finger and saying what you are doing is wrong.