I think what your trying to say can be more abstractly put as &quot;the ends justify the means&quot;.<p>&gt; Rules in society are also pretty stupid.<p>If you mean laws than no.. they are not stupid. Killing people and getting away with it is bad. And some of the &quot;rules&quot; in wall street if broken can have an equally horrific impact.<p>And that comes back to the question do the ends justify the means? Sometimes it does for sure. For Armstrong it could be argued it did.