Fear. Fear can make people act irrationally and cloud one's understanding of the lawful actions taking place around them.

Lawful doesn’t mean right. Slavery was lawful.

Laws are not immutable. Slavery is an example of something that was lawful and then society added rules against it.

	▲	int_19h an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In US, the society didn't just "add rules against it". If you recall, the slavers first had to be beaten with a very big stick.
	▲	nearlyepic 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and your point is?

I guess anything is ok… as long as it’s ‘lawful’. No government would ever make an unjust law.