I want a time machine for just one quick trip -- to Nov 9...
In the meantime, this from TNT:
windwalker wrote:Dmitri wrote:OK since he came out and explained, that's fine. Otherwise it seemed like someone having a pathetic passive-aggressive fit and being a coward about it. If this guy just does this sort of thing (arrested 25 times?) and it's for a good cause (which it is) and most importantly he's turning himself in (which he is), -- that's cool. I.e. this video is the actual act, not the first video.
Your cool with someone breaking the law if its "for a good cause" by your judgment
What happens when that "good cause" happens to involve you, would you feel the same?
lets hope your not part of the focus for the next "good cause"
"Breaking the law" makes this sound very, very bad. While technically it is "breaking the law", it is qualitatively different from 99.9% of other cases/instances of "breaking the law" -- ya know, things like embezzlement, rape, murder, etc. This isn't even a serious case of vandalism -- destruction of a Hollywood "star", seriously?
And yeah I'm cool with someone "breaking the law" (in this "light" way) as a public protest to something, whether or not I agree with their statement (and in this case I absolutely agree), -- IF they are aware that what they're doing is illegal AND are turning themselves in. It's a variant of public disobedience, which is
conceptually a good thing. This sort of activities happen all the time and
usually for good causes. And there are
way more extreme cases of it, like the Green Peace boat activities or the Pussy Riot ordeal in Russia a few years back. (Although I'm sure you strongly disapprove of those as well.
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