Yes so true. So many people look to the law to tell them what is right and wrong. Clearly authoritarian because the law does not decide what is right, since the law is created by a minority of the population. But people look to the law to decide what is right because the system has destroyed their ability to think for themselves

All that is required for the triumph of organized evil is that the good remain separated, and do nothing.

(apocryphal bastardized version of something Edmund Burke apparently didn't directly say, who cares, the idea is correct)

This is also a good example of the social construction of crime.

I like to phrase it as "legality and morality are only loosely correlated"

THE MIND UNLEASHED