There is no legitimate defence for prioritising "legality" over morality, especially if you ONLY do it when a victim of oppressive systems fights back - that just makes you a bootlicking class traitor
There is no legitimate defence for prioritising "legality" over morality, especially if you ONLY do it when a victim of oppressive systems fights back - that just makes you a bootlicking class traitor
ID: white text on a black background around a faded photo of a person with a black face scarf on and a hat that says "illegal" on it:
"But it's illegal"
"Saying that something is illegal is not an argument, it is an appeal to authority. Laws are arbitrary dictates to control a population, not universal standards of morality.
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It was illegal to hide Jewish people in nazi Germany...
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These mtfkers be saying "Anne Frank is in the attic" when the gestapo didn't even ask them.
Nazi got laws in applications. For them, all of their doings was legitimate and "legal".
Yup, the holocaust was legal, as was slavery, as was the genocide of Indigenous peoples the world over, as were so so many other atrocities.
on the other hand, saying "trumpler can't do that! it's illegal!!" has even less meaning now than ever before, and it never had much meaning to begin with
"The police can't lie to you, its in the constitution!"
-said the cop who's legally lying
This reminds me of that scene in Breaking Bad where
spoiler
Badger gets arrested by an undercover cop who told Badger that "cops can't lie" 🤣
Poot Badger...
Back when Christianity was a protest movement they understood this too:
Galatians 2:21
" I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
The problem is these people are just full of shit about everything all the time. The law is a very poor excuse for doing something, and if The law makes someone choose a different action then what they think is right, That's literally just moral cowardice.
Might want to check the dictionary for 'arbitrary' and 'dictate'. I see the deeper point but this is poorly worded and doesn't constitute an argument either. Weak demonstration of an appealing idea.
ETA:
I don't really listen to Egor Letov, a russian punk-alike singer-songwriter, but I find the phrase 'Kill the government in you' that I've first heard from him kinda fitting. Delegating integral parts of you to the big daddy government\corporation is irresponsible and leaves you at it's will, it grows into you like cancer. And there are too many people not feeling like they make a choice by following the line.
It's not an anarchist perspective, but I do love quoting David Henry Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience at the kinds of people who think that the law determines what is right. It's very useful for justifying a lot of the less radical activism to the moderates, helps with recruitment and all that too
Did you typo
"freethoughtproject.com"?Edit: never mind, that wasn't the right site either. Apparently the correct one is thefreethoughtproject.com?
That’s the question I was thinking.