Societies decide what they deem "legitimate reason", so you can like or dislike it - if you cannot get enough people on your side, unlikely to matter. And no,

Societies decide what they deem "legitimate reason", so you can like or dislike it - if you cannot get enough people on your side, unlikely to matter. And no, sitting on a resource and not using it is - at least in edge cases - not ok. Leaving other people to die because you refuse to extract something life saving on your property might push the bounds of propriety, for example.