There's a difference between "morally justifiable" and "legal". You may be able to justify downloading ROMs of out-of-print games in a classroom theology discussion, but you will never be able to claim that it's legal so long as the copyright on those games hold up, and they will not be part of the public domain for a very long time.
Once you bring up "why should people pay when they can get for free, albeit illegally" you've already forfeited your entire point.
No, we are not getting ripped off, Sega is just offering a much better deal. A rip-off would be what it would cost to actually buy the original carts. In that perspective, the Virtual Console games are generally a steal. The Sega collection is simply a much more fantastic deal, assumedly because Sega wants more money from the HD crowd.
You haven't made any point here, and you didn't address the point that many people (and most Wii owners are Wii-only owners in terms of current-gen hardware so they don't have alternatives) have never played these games before. There is no reason to change them, there is no reason to not sell them for a reasonable price, and there is definitely no reason to complain that "we are all paying money again for games that we own, have owned at some point" because that's a fabrication.
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