> The "rule of law" means that people are willing to abide by legal decisions. But surely very few people will say (and fewer truthfully) that they are willing

> The "rule of law" means that people are willing to abide by legal decisions. But surely very few people will say (and fewer truthfully) that they are willing to abide by any conceivable legal decision that is in accordance with the law in the given jurisdiction. Most people will agree that it is quite possible to have "bad laws," where "bad" is defined not by some objective moral claim but rather by their own beliefs and preferences. So I find any appeal to "rule of law" disingenuous at best. Even if it did exist in the most extreme form, i.e. legal questions were objectively decidable and always executed flawlessly, most people agree that laws themselves can be bad and some laws can be so bad that they ought not be followed or enforced.