Comment by SXX

I not trying to justify it, but if you actually look and check research about people who been caught stealing there is huge difference for them between stealing TV that dropped from a truck vs stealing from a porch vs stealing from inside the house even though it's the same TV.

Theft is theft, but for monkey brains there is huge difference between stealing someone wallet from a pocket vs picking dropped wallet and not returning it. So my point is that doors and locks work not because it's good technical measures, but due to how average Joe percieve social construct about them.

And for grey area activities online there is no such social construct because there is no percieved connection between bunch of email addresses and real people. Also in some countries it's totally legal to send you tons of physical mail spam.