Thinking aloud on Black Marketing

The other day, at the Bloggers’ Meet, someone (I don’t quite remember who) took a quick poll to see how many people supported ‘black market’. I think a couple of us raised their hands to show that they were pro-’black market’. The reason that was put forward was that the buyer should be able to freely determine what he wants to buy.

Fair enough, I say!

But isn’t ‘black market’ a way to evade the regulations (which are invariably unjust and illogical) imposed by government? So, shouldn’t you actually protest against the regulation itself, rather than supporting something that circumvents that regulation?

Or is the circumvention itself, an act of protest against the regulation?