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so we all individually can just decide a law is unjust? that'll be fun

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• DannyBee 2y ago
  Don't worry - jefferson never actually said this because he wasn't a complete idiot. Don't take my word for it though, the monticello folks looked into it too - https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/if-law-unjustspurious-quotation/ https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers... It is a fun quote though, because it's one of those quotes that people want to use to justify their own dumb behavior. "If you don't like the law, feel free to ignore it" - Albert Einstein
• jojobas 2y ago
  If you come to disagree with the justice of a law, your options are to conform or, yes, decide that the law is unjust.
• XorNot 2y ago
  I mean strictly speaking the people voted for Trump, so collectively they're all okay with this. Of course Trump's platform was enormously based on law & order and combatting the drug trade, which he seems to think should still be actually illegal and is not ending the war on drugs so, I don't know - make of that what you will.