Sounds like a leading question. We live in a society where lawsuits are often required to protect one's interests -- in the case of trademark or copyright, if a company doesn't challenge this stuff, they can lose their TM or CR altogether, which could lead to anyone being able to make a thing that has the name The Elder Scrolls, for example (if BGS didn't protect its trademark). If Nintendo didn't sue to protect its licensing model, the market may have collapsed altogether again (as it had with Atari, who did not protect the integrity of their system in that way). So lawsuits can be useful both for companies and for consumers.That said, as my school motto says: Laws without morals are in vain. A lot of the reason why our law books are so complicated/enormous/expansive is because there are so many bad actors and you have to try to do something to constrain them and protect against unfair competition or predation. Regulations arise from specific actions that corporations generally take, to maximize profits, that damage people.So on balance, we have a system where lawsuits are the mechanism by which people and corporations find their creeping way towards a just society. It's not perfect, it doesn't always work well, but it's what we have. There's probably a more specific example that you're frustrated about, would be happy to speak to that.

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