Poll - Legalities

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Without considering the morality of creating and breaking rules, I wanted to point out that there are considerable figures of history that are known and admired precisely because they broke the rules. Surely, we'd not condemn as immoral folks like Rosa Parks, Mohandas Gahndi, Samuel Adams or Martin Luther King, Jr., would we?

Those people are known for using civil disobedience. I believe that Gandhi (I remember reading something about this, but I don't know what; could have been Martin Luther King Jr.) wrote that civil disobedience is only acceptable when used against unjust laws. An "unjust law" would be defined as something that takes away someone's right(s), while the people at loss don't have the voice to change the law or speak against it. Gandhi and Martin Luther King didn't fight against laws simply because they disliked them.

So I would reconsider what I originally said about that people should never challenge a law.