Life is about discretion, proportionality, and choosing the lesser of multiple evils to make your life as easy as it can be under your given circumstances.
If you want to have a hippy demonstration and go to jail screaming, “Hell no, we won’t go” over what amounts to a curfew ticket be my guest. And if you think by doing so you’re falling on some sort of metaphorical sword and making a tangible change in the world one civil disobedience at a time, well...you’re less intelligent than I thought. You’ve let your Shangri-la view of how the “justice” system is supposed to work get intertwined with reality which is the absolute worst kind of naïveté. But go get ‘em, tiger...stick it to the man!!!
PS, people who say, “If I have to go in handcuffs to prove a point, I will...” are naive dullards at best, and hypocritical at worst. Because when the rubber meets the road you’re all talk. The Constitution has plenty of great arguments against it regarding taxes, but guess what? Ol’ ModebaSan pays ‘em each and every pay period, not because he’s a good dude who feels like they’re a necessary part of a high-functioning society, but because he knows if he doesn’t, Johnny Law is gonna come take his house and throw him in the slammer. So save the martyrdom spiel for someone who can’t see past it. You’re stealing the thunder of people who’ve really done stuff to make the world better.
