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the legal system veers too far from people’s moral intuition,
then society runs into trouble. Perhaps we have too many exlawyers
in Congress. As lawyers they could legitimately ignore
the moral implications of laws, but that left them ill prepared
for the moral debugging that ought to be part of their job in
Congress.
There is also an important lesson for companies: The law
sometimes matters less than the judgment of the public. Even
if a company follows the strict letter of the law, it will run into
trouble if it violates the moral intuition of its customers, shareholders,
and employees. Saying “What I did was legal” is often
a bad defense.