Germany's Second Empire Supreme Court once heard a case like this.
Two journalists bribed the servants at Chancellor Bismarck's residence and entered his room, where they took the last photograph of Bismarck before his death.
In the photograph, Bismarck lay dying in bed. The Black Death prevalent in Eastern Europe caused nosebleeds once contracted, and Bismarck had a moustache over his lips, making it appear at first glance as though he had suffered a nosebleed. His head was also wrapped in bandages, not because he had been injured, though Bismarck had once survived an assassination attempt.
Most people died with their mouths open. Tying bandages around his head made Bismarck's final appearance look more presentable when people came to view him.
To make the photograph look authentic, the two journalists also arranged the scene. A clock was clearly visible on the bedside table to the right, facing the camera so that the exact time the photograph was taken could be seen.
The Second Empire Supreme Court's opinion at the time was: if a person were allowed openly to retain something obtained by illegal means and taken from another person who held legal ownership of it, that would offend the natural sense of justice.
As a result, the two journalists did not become rich from the photograph. Instead, they were thrown into prison.
Everyone had a personal sense of what was "right." Aristotle had argued that, by examining everyone's thoughts on justice, one could discover that this feeling was naturally rooted in human beings.
Whether it was Bismarck or an ordinary person, what the journalists did was wrong. Although most people had no interest in witnessing the final moments of an ordinary person's life, no one would bribe staff as the journalists had when there was no profit to be made.