Once you start lobbying/influencing what laws exist, you forfeit the right to justify your actions purely on what's legal. Mainly: if you spend large amounts o

Once you start lobbying/influencing what laws exist, you forfeit the right to justify your actions purely on what's legal. Mainly: if you spend large amounts of money to stop an action becoming illegal or to make it legal, then you can't justify the action by saying "it's legal" without also justifying why it should be legal - given that you just assisted create a law. Amoral actors should not be allowed to control the legal system that keeps them in line.