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by gwright 5310 days ago
While I realize that there are defensible reasons to actively reject some government directives the benefits of a lawful society should not be underestimated. Bad laws should be fixed via legislative action. Sometimes this means complying with the bad law in the interim.

Selective enforcement and/or selective non-compliance may be justifiable as a tactical response but if taken too far then we no longer have the rule of law.

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Bad laws should be rejected via jury nullification; you can't count on legislators who were the ones to enact the bad law in the first place.