All civil disobedience is "just asking to get your ass legally handed to you". That's the whole point. You're intentionally breaking the law to show the injus

All civil disobedience is "just asking to get your ass legally handed to you". That's the whole point. You're intentionally breaking the law to show the injustice. Civil disobedients like Gandhi and King spent a lot of time incarcerated. In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King wrote: "One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."