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?