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Originally posted by sgtclub
Agreed, but we are, first, a country of laws.
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We have an interesting dichotomy in our thinking about law and morality. Walden Pond rarely evokes an image of a craven lawbreaker picking and choosing what to obey for personal advantage. Jury nullification most often sounds of the courageous triumph of the moral over the procedural. People get arrested for paying on other people's parking meters and we don't generally cheer on the police.
I think stances on this subject, like many others, depend on whose ox is being Gored.
