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Robbie,
If bureaucrats pass a law that says on Thursday anyone whose name starts with the letter R can only drive in the right lane and must not exceed 20 miles per hour... You'd have some options available.
1 - sue the government in court to have the new law struck down
2 - ignore the law and hope you get away with it
3 - start a grass roots campaign to have legislation changed
4 - move somewhere the law doesn't apply
5 - live with it and abide by the law while bitching about it on GFY
If you choose #2 above and are going in the left lane at 140mph until you crash and kill 11 people while making the highway unusable by everyone else for generations to come... You can't just throw your hands in the air, say 'it was a dumb law anyway' and expect to walk away without being jailed for breaking the law, going 140, killing 11 people and ruining the highway. You chose to ignore the law, you were speeding and you killed 11 people. You go to jail for that.
BP didn't get in trouble for trying to change the law. They got in trouble for ignoring the law, recklessly endangering the public, killing 11 people and wrecking the entire Gulf ecosystem - whether you think the law was a good idea or not isn't even a factor in reasonable analysis from my POV.
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