> imoho recognizing the necessity/righteousness of espionage goes hand in hand with disrespecting intellectual property rights. What it shows is that life cann

> imoho recognizing the necessity/righteousness of espionage goes hand in hand with disrespecting intellectual property rights. What it shows is that life cannot be reduced to a set of rules. Rules are merely built upon a model of reality (and models are by definition incomplete) - reality does not conform to the rules. Much as we'd like to, we cannot achieve justice by rules alone. So one must come up with a living system that can accommodate reality. That living system is what we live under. It's not perfect, and cannot achieve perfect justice. But it adapts and does reasonably well - until it doesn't, and then the revolutionaries replace it to start the cycle anew.