Morality vs. Legality

Here's a good example of where 'the law' separates from common morality:

http://www.theindianalawyer.com/html/opinions-pdf.asp?pdf=01121003mpb.pdf

The case focuses on a man, who applies for a credit card, charges up an amount, then ultimately never pays his account. The credit card company sells it to another company that is in the business of buying bad debts & trying to collect them, and they go after the man. In the end, the man wins because the statute of limitations is invoked on collecting the debt e.g. they waited too long to collect.

So, boys & girls, the moral of the story is this:

In America, it's not what's morally right or wrong, it's just what the 'letter of the law' says.