I'm not defending the parent, since I don't think 7% is bad, but the conflation of legality and morality (or insert a less dramatic word for "things people are

I'm not defending the parent, since I don't think 7% is bad, but the conflation of legality and morality (or insert a less dramatic word for "things people are allowed to judge you on") is one of the most tired fallacies in all of discourse.