> Why should it be legal to make billions of dollars in profit off of the failure of something? Why should it be illegal? One might make an argument in case o

> Why should it be legal to make billions of dollars in profit off of the failure of something? Why should it be illegal? One might make an argument in case of naked short selling, but even that is tedious at best. > social discipline ... death ... kill ... robber-baron capitalism ... lobbying ... vampirically suck the remaining wealth out of troubled areas With this choice of emotionally loaded words, I think you want to make a moral or political argument, not a legal or financial one.