[lethain]

I think your key point is and doing so publicly. Many people use similar arguments against copyright laws to explain their illegal downloading of licensed material, but do it in secrecy. Violating potentially unjust laws in secret and for one's explicit benefit strikes me as extremely self-serving with a very small dose of morality if any at all.

[derefr]

If a law can be violated in secret (meaning that there are no public side-effects), and "for one's explicit benefit" (meaning that the private side-effects are entirely positive) then it is most likely a consensual crime. There is already a very good case[1] for not specifically violating, but rather just completely disregarding the existence of, such laws.

[1] http://www.drugsense.org/mcwilliams/www.mcwilliams.com/books...