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Kasz216 said:
txrattlesnake said:
Kasz216 said:
txrattlesnake said:
TheRealMafoo said:

 

You are going into a profession to practice law when you clearly have no use for it.

Your premise, is it’s ok to break a law if the lawbreaker feels justified.

Why have laws?

 

      It's what HD Thoreau taught, and he is still taught in college lit courses as one of the most important American thinkers.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau

That is a great injustice to Thoreau.

Civil Disobedience is only to be used in a case of extreme injustice.

Not.  "I don't like this law so i'm going to ignore it."

It's "This law is fundamentally wrong."

 

      Who came up with the idea that there was anything wrong in the first place?

A statement completely immaterial to Thoreau.

Besides, Thoreau was anti-government in general.  Akuma is pro big government.  I doubt he gets his moral guidence from Thoreau.

Guy was as hardline a libretarian as you'll ever find.

 

Are you kidding me, I love Thoreau!  He's so funny.  Very inspiring guy.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson