As a different example: A company dumps toxic chemicals into the air/water, and it results in horrible deaths and destruction to the environment which makes ev

As a different example: A company dumps toxic chemicals into the air/water, and it results in horrible deaths and destruction to the environment which makes everyone's lives worse. However, they've managed to do this in a completely legal way. Maybe they moved the dumping to a region without strong regulation. Maybe they found some legal loophole. Maybe they funded a politician's campaign who then carved out a legal loophole for them. Would you still not blame the company or call their actions unethical in this case? I personally would blame the company. I would consider their decisions unethical. I would also want to fix the laws so that I could legally hold them accountable, but I wouldn't absolve the company of responsibility until those laws were fixed. How is tax avoidance all that different? Sure, it's not directly harming anyone. However, the lack of funding for the government means fewer social services and those services often are used to help people avoid horrible deaths (such as homeless freezing on the streets, veterans receiving medical care, or safety improvements to roads) and to improve the environment we live in (national parks, clean water initiatives, etc.).