Good People Don’t Obey Bad Laws
Good people don’t obey bad laws. Bad laws aren’t obeyed by good people.
I spoke to a police officer recently and confirmed this. They don’t care if you don’t pay your taxes, default on your mortgage, drive without insurance, have an expired license plate, or speed. They might be compelled to pull you over and issue you a ticket but you can simply smile, say “thank you officer”, and then throw the ticket in the trash.
I even told this officer about an idea I had for writing the officer that pulled me over a ticket for disturbing the peace, complete with a fine and my personal Venmo account.
He thought this was hilarious.
Police officers have an impossible job. They have to enforce the whole law and they know they are serving corrupt politicians. The reason most are on the force is to stop violent criminals yet often the reason criminals are violent is because of the conditions created by people obeying bad laws, resulting in poor education, poor neighborhoods, emasculated men, and corruptions.
The reality is that any law passed has to be enforced. Most laws, because they are bad, depend on the voluntary cooperation of the masses to self-enforce. If people would simply refuse to obey bad laws, the peaceful disobedience of the people would prove that the politicians are the idiots and the people themselves are the true legislatures discerning right from wrong.
Ironically, if people stopped obeying bad laws, there would be fewer true criminals for police officers to stop and there would be fewer wannabe tyrants in positions of power making the work of policing morally impossible.
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