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So what happens when a lot of bad laws are passed, and the legislative system only listens to 1-5% of the population ? Should obedience still be lauded ?
If legal methods of reforming those laws are available, then they should be adhered to. Otherwise, we're talking about a revolution against a corrupt government, which is a different matter entirely.
Thanks for your perspective, I hadn't considered that. Have a lovely day!
There's a fairly big gulf between civil disobedience and a revolution.
While many have described Rosa Parks' refusal to obey racial segregation laws as revolutionary it was only figuratively so, not literally. There was no intention to incite the populace to take up arms and violently overthrow the government on her part anyway.
Civil disobedience of unjust laws is exactly what we should raise our children to do, otherwise we are no different to those preWW2 Germans who turned a blind eye (noting of course that not all did, many principled stands were taken as well).
Civil disobedience against injustice is a duty, not a cause for censure, it's one of the few methods short of violent revolution that provably works.