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Then you'd be using your arrest / punishment as a form of martyrdom to draw attention to the issue. Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal. You'd get
by mfoy_ 9y ago
Then you'd be using your arrest / punishment as a form of martyrdom to draw attention to the issue. Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal.
You'd get arrested (as expected), fined or imprisoned (as expected), then be outraged that the law exists. But you wouldn't be outraged that you _were_ arrested... you must have expected that.
- mikeash 9y agoI'm confused by this concept of "Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal." Isn't it exactly like civil disobedience, which is criminal? I still don't get why we can't be outraged just because we expected it. If the law says I have to sit at the back of the bus, and I get arrested for sitting at the front of the bus, I can't be outraged at being arrested?
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I'm confused by this concept of "Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal." Isn't it exactly like civil disobedience, which is criminal? “Can be” rather than “is”. Civil disobedience can apply to laws with civil or criminal penalties (the “civil” in “civil disobedience” does not refer to the civil/criminal distinction.)
- kup0 9y agoYou can both expect something and be outraged by it. Your post seems to assume the reason for the outrage is that the arrest goes against an expectation.