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Not really interested in semantics. Intentionally breaking the law (and accepting the consequences) is often called civil disobedience and I don't fundamentally

• blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  It’s just breaking the law, and is criminal. “Civil disobedience” is just a false way to minimize the fact that they’re acting unlawfully. They have ways to make change legally. If that doesn’t work they need to accept it, not decide to destroy society.
  • lanstin 2y ago
    You wish civil rights hadn’t succeeded as much as it did? You think increased investment in the war in Vietnam would have been useful? Regret women getting the vote? Since long before Thoreau, people have used civil disobedience to rouse the common sense of right and wrong to have laws changed. Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law.
  • Eddy_Viscosity2 2y ago
    "The Law" isn't some fundamental property like the speed of light. And its not handed down from all powerful all knowing deities. It's an agreement between members of a society about how things should work and it evolves and changes along with the people. When the written law no longer matches what the population wants, its not really "the law" anymore - its a shackle that to be freed from.
• itsdrewmiller 2y ago
  Me neither! But it's a meaningful thing to do explicitly because you don't have the "right" to do it.