Huh? That's not elucidating anything; it's not even a cursory summary. Big dogs eat little dogs isn't help.

Let's start here: what's legal isn't always ethical and vice versa. Second, when legal vs ethical goes sideways, the state has force. Individual's don't. That's important too. Finally what about fear as a basic component of human nature.

I'll leave it this way. Firefly the TV series played this up nice:

- escorts + paid sex was legal even a status card

- theft wasn't esp against the "man"

Mal wasn't having any of that because law enforcer wasn't legit as he saw it. Now what?

He stood up against censorship, seems laudable and deserves more in my estimation than an attitude of "well that's what you get"

I didn't say it wasn't. I said luck wasn't a factor.

...during wartime. The rules change a bit then. He knew that. I have little regard for those kind of heroics - self-aggrandizing and counterproductive.