I think that you are missing that laws are much more a sort of minimum bright line black and white standard, where ethics can be much grayer and enforced more

I think that you are missing that laws are much more a sort of minimum bright line black and white standard, where ethics can be much grayer and enforced more subjectively. Life has a lot of gray areas. Typically it is not someone just making them up out of jealousy, it is an organization that comes to consensus about how they want to be viewed as a group. This is a good thing. It is important to have both.