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I have always felt as you do about those with great power and wealth, especially when in positions of trust and leadership, being held to a higher standard. Always thought it intuitively obvious as well. Seeing that so few in our society seem to feel the same makes me more and more pessimistic about the future of our country.

That we, as a society, no longer seem to possess or even have any notion of that value (not sure now that we ever did) will be the ultimate reason for the failure of our experiment in democracy. Followed closely by the fact that society, writ large, has no idea that this actually *is* an ongoing experiment, not a done deal that will continue to endure, no matter what.

FWIW, I think you parse out the whole legal / ethical thing pretty well.

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