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Originally Posted by Azayzel
Nope, I'll stick with my own set of ethical values and occassionally see where others have placed theirs.
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If that means breaking the law (and I'm not for a moment suggesting that you are), that brings up the question of whether we have a moral right to break laws that we disagree with.
Isn't one of the duties of being a citizen in a democracy to obey
all the laws, not just those that we happen to agree with?
IMHO, if one thinks that a law is unjust, one should fight to change it using the appropriate judicial process, not simply say "I don't agree with that law, so I'm not going to obey it".
Imagine the chaos if everyone in society decided on an individual basis which laws they were going to obey and which they weren't.
If one does think that a law is unjust and decide to disobey it "on principle" then surely one should have the "guts" to do so openly and accept whatever the punishment is, rather than break it secretly and furtively, and then claim some sort of "moral superiority" for having done so, don't you think?