The system these powerful men have set up does not prevent people from breaking the rules the powerful men have set. It does however lay out potential consequences for breaking the rules, should the victim choose to navigate this system in the correct way.
They are powerful, but not omnipotent. They are men, not gods.
Good point, now we can get a (for me?) more interesting discussion:
- Was something illegal done here?
- If yes, why is it (seemingly) so easy to do this?
- How can this be changed?
- Should it be changed? (In my opinion: Yes, a law which is easily breakable is useless)
Note: I only raise questions of legality here, not morality. I will not even start to discuss the morality of this action, because in my opinion anyone who says anything besides "horrible, not tolerable" in his analysis of what happened here has such a fundamental different set of core values from myself that any discussion would be a complete waste of time.
> Was something illegal done here? - If yes, why is it (seemingly) so easy to do this?
Laws don't exist to make it impossible to do the prohibited things, they exist to provide consequences for doing the prohibited things. Particularly, civil laws of this kind exist to provide compensation to those harmed by the act prohibited.
But they tend to require the person who believes they are due compensation to actively seek it.
Obviously, in this case, that didn't happen or mindfulgeek wouldn't have been let go.