The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
That which is not just is not law.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.