The original post was about a company with ethical standards.

That cut as close as the law allowed.

I asked what said company would do if the law was changed to be more lax.

Allow me to phrase that in speed limits.

You have an ethical standard regarding speed (assume that it is because you believe that more people die when the the limit is 65 as opposed to 55).

When the limit is 55, you drive 55.

When the limit is 65, the law is more lax than your ethical standard so you drive 55. You adhere to your ethical standard.

If you drive 65 when the law is 65, and 75 when the law is 75, and so on........ What is your ethical standard? Do you have one?

Which brings us back to Ashton's recital of Dale's "legal == ethical".