[Nyororin]

The question isn`t whether the law is justified or not. It`s that it is a very obvious law (not something they just didn`t know about) - it was complete common sense. They broke the law in a foreign country when they most definitely should have known better. These people should have been able to live without for the length of their contract - I mean, it isn`t physically addictive right? They were stupid to break the law in a foreign country - that is all that matters.

If the law were something that you could simply not know about or forget about by habit - like the Time magazine example - I could excuse them in a way for breaking it. But this is in a completely different category - there is no room for excuses. They knowingly broke the law in a country known for VERY strongly enforcing that law. The law itself does not matter in this case.