ID: white text on a black background around a faded photo of a person with a black face scarf on and a hat that says “illegal” on it:

“But it’s illegal”

"Saying that something is illegal is not an argument, it is an appeal to authority. Laws are arbitrary dictates to control a population, not universal standards of morality.

Credit: freethouchtproject.com

  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    It’s not an anarchist perspective, but I do love quoting David Henry Thoreau’s essay on civil disobedience at the kinds of people who think that the law determines what is right. It’s very useful for justifying a lot of the less radical activism to the moderates, helps with recruitment and all that too