To be pedantic, it's not civil disobedience if it's not openly defiant. It's one thing to evade a law, another to defy a law with publicity and challenge the go

To be pedantic, it's not civil disobedience if it's not openly defiant. It's one thing to evade a law, another to defy a law with publicity and challenge the government to prosecute you. Or as Wikipedia defines it: "Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience Evading a law is a selfish act; civil disobedience is going to jail out of principle, which is selfless.