Law, Regulation, and Morality. Oh my!

From a razor sharp essay, Mark Steyn:

When people get used to complying with micro-regulation, it’s but a small step to confusing regulatory compliance with the right thing to do — and then arguing that, in the absence of regulatory guidelines, there is no “right thing to do.”

Another:

“When we say ‘we don’t know what we’d do under the same circumstances,’ we make cowardice the default position.”