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> Just because the fraud or theft isn't at the moment illegal doesn't meant it isn't fraud or theft.

It's a breach of contract. It's not fraud or theft.



No. Fraud and theft are concepts that are broader than whatever legal jurisdiction you happen to be in at the time. Imagine that somebody gets one of those libertarian paradises up and going. Or imagine a failed state or a post-apocalyptic scenario, where there is no longer any law. It's still possible to run a fraud, it's just that the fraud would be, de jure or de facto, legal.




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