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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

So we should break the law anytime we see an injustice?

No, we need to work within the system to bring justice to the people. Our civilization requires people to follow a set of laws. If the laws are injust, then we need to work to change the laws, not break them.

The Boston Tea Party was illegal. The Declaration of Independence was illegal. Freeing slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation was illegal. Having de-segregated public areas used to be illegal. Rosa Parks broke the law. Thomas Jefferson broke the law. George Washington broke the law. Although they committed illegal activities, they greatly altered our society for the better. There is quite a difference between civil disobedience and lawlessness anarchy.

Our world is changing, and silly lines drawn on a map are beginning to mean less and less. Isolationism is yielding to globalism. We will still have separate countries, but a peaceful future lies not in drawing chalk lines and apportioning up the world, but in everyone opening our borders. Just look at recent trends - the United States, the European Union, and United Nations - all separate sovereign entities joining together for the betterment of everyone.