Brutkey

Totts
@Geri@mastodon.online

It may be relevant to sum up this with some St Augustine: Law is not morality. Historically, there are two views on unjust laws: one is "lex injusta non est lex" (An unjust law is no law at all); the other is that the law is whatever the state says is the law, but one has a moral duty to oppose unjust laws. Both theories lead to a similar outcome- one should oppose unjust laws; however, one's morality permits or requires.

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Totts
@Geri@mastodon.online

Civil disobedience means deliberately breaking an unjust law while accepting the legal consequences of doing so and is therefore a highly moral act.
Poll tax, anyone?
Suffragettes, anyone?

Finally, my last little nugget of history …..

The Fairford Five was a group of five British protesters who broke into the RAF Fairford military air base in 2003 and disabled equipment in order to disrupt military operations at the start of the Iraq War.

(Sounds a bit Brize Common that)

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