OT: Forum legalish question

[Ben Scott]

On 3/11/06, Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:
>>   Since you bring it up: I also feel that law-breaking is a poor first
>> choice for effecting change,...
>
> Tell that to Rosa Parks.

  Are you suggesting that Rosa Parks set out to break the law and get
arrested because she felt that is the ideal form of government?  I
rather suspect not.  I suspect she would vastly have preferred another
choice be open to her.

  Law-breaking is a poor first choice for effecting change.  There are
other methods which work much better.  Law-breaking should always be
the *last* choice.  The fact that it is sometimes the *only* choice
does not change that.

> I follow the principle of doing whatever I want as long as I am not doing
> harm to anyone.

  While I don't disagree, that really dodges the question entirely. 
What constitutes "harm"?  Who decides?  You?  Your accuser?  Neither
strikes me as terribly fair to the other.

-- Ben