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Immoral laws should be broken. The law mostly works because people follow it, voluntarily, most of the time. And if enough people break the law (and take step
by stale2002 9y ago
Immoral laws should be broken.
The law mostly works because people follow it, voluntarily, most of the time.
And if enough people break the law (and take steps to prevent themselves from being caught and avoid all consequences, obviously), then eventually the immoral law may as well not be the law because it becomes effectively unenforceable.
"The rules are the rules" is never a good excuse. What matters is the underlying intent and reason for the law.
In this situation, the intent of the law is to prevent employees from being exploited. So a judge should look at it and say "obviously, this person wasn't being exploited, and it is not the intent of the law to deport them in this case".