The point is raises is important. There is no law that you have to secure your network. If someone uses your network to pirate, do you get shut down? That's like demolishing a freeway because a criminal drove down it for his getaway.
I agree that the point is important, but that problem already exists independently of this issue.
To use your analogy, the guy I was responding to was saying: "if you make a law I don't agree with, I will break it and frame innocent people. See if I care."
That's where it becomes a competition for the title.