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> First they broke the laws that you didn't like, so you didn't care. Then they destroyed laws you didn't care about, so you didn't question that too. Then they
by baddox 11y ago
> First they broke the laws that you didn't like, so you didn't care. Then they destroyed laws you didn't care about, so you didn't question that too. Then they started to destroy the laws you like, and by that time it was too late to stop it, because momentum was too big.
But that doesn't many any sense. That's a big leap between breaking laws I don't like and breaking laws I do like. The analogy to that quote about Nazis just doesn't exist.
> But can you be sure to always think the law is bad when it is indeed bad, and not only when you're on the worse end of it? Laws have to balance the need of the many.
Obviously there are subtle cases and cases where I don't have the necessary information to make a judgement.
> Taxi laws are not among them
Aren't they? Haven't a lot of taxi laws been changed since Uber started breaking them? I know that Uber operates legally in some jurisdictions under new regulations.
> it doesn't change the fact that for a civilized society, the default should always be to follow the law even if you don't like it.
That's certainly not a fact. It's an opinion, and one I absolutely do not share.
> And bullets generally work better than arguments for silencing people you disagree with.
I don't believe that's true except in cases where there is a large power disparity between groups.
> I really hope you're a god, for whom every appropriate action is the one that creates most good in the world, because you're expressing a very self-centered view.
It's not any more self-centered than the notion that democracy is a good way to organize society. After all, in democracies, laws are passed by people who ostensibly represent the population, and thus laws are ostensibly a reflection of what behavior people think is appropriate. Assuming you approve of democracy, you already are promoting the notion that individuals have some credible sense of what behavior is and isn't appropriate.