Whether the business owner has more disdain for Starbucks or Starbucks' lawyer doesn't seem like a particularly interesting distinction to me. I'm also not sugg

Whether the business owner has more disdain for Starbucks or Starbucks' lawyer doesn't seem like a particularly interesting distinction to me. I'm also not suggesting the letter-writer believes anything I'm saying here. I'll quickly concede that a vast minority of people agree with my take on this. The argument that I'm proposing is only that the business owner didn't act unethically in violating the trademark or in writing the letter... regardless of his motives.