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Oi answered it by telling you it isn't the same thing. It's not immoral.
You did not limit your proposed ban to "immoral". You said Immoral and Illegal. Look, I'll quote you saying it:
Boo Radley said:Post 186
Immoral and illegal means are never justified no matter the ends.
If you now wish to strike "illegal" and simply say that immoral means do not justify the ends :shrug: that's fine. In that case my reply to you would be the same as my point to DA60 - that the morality of means is often determined by the end being pursued, and cannot be considered independently of them.
Or if you wish to argue that you were speaking only to means that were both immoral and illegal :shrug: then that would be fine, too. That would leave you defending means that were strictly immoral (but not illegal) as justified by an end, but it's your call.
I'm sure you enjoy quoting your last sentence, but it's meaningless. Common phrases come with a well know societal context.
The ends do not justify the means is a common phrase. The argument that no end justifies any means is not.