I agree. And as Slavoj Zizek is fond of saying many (most) people are ok with someone doing the dirty work for them (break the law, torture, what have you) they just don't want to explicitly be told about it.
And anyway, if there's a better service to be had, that people want and are willing to pay for, screw the law, it's a high-latency side chain of authority that has built-in, but slow and political, update mechanisms, not the actual Word Of God.
To follow up on this, here is the full quote from Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:
Zizek: Here I’m a little bit of anti-democratic pessimist in the sense that if you really ask people, cut the bullshit, what do you really want from government, I don’t think people really want that government should not torture people and so on, the point is do it but do it discretely I don’t want to know it.
I think that real issue here is that it would not get laughed out of the board room or a shareholders meeting.