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Feb. 27th, 2004 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9What's better: to attempt the thing that is absolutely the right thing to do, but almost impossible to do, or to do the thing that is absolutely doable, but not as right?
Specifically (obviously): should US cities be throwing off the yoke of state law and marrying same-sex couples (the right thing to do), or should they wait so as to not accidentally encourage a discriminatory constitutional amendment, but in doing so continue to discriminate themselves?
Philosophers, attack!
Specifically (obviously): should US cities be throwing off the yoke of state law and marrying same-sex couples (the right thing to do), or should they wait so as to not accidentally encourage a discriminatory constitutional amendment, but in doing so continue to discriminate themselves?
Philosophers, attack!
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Re: People are missing the point...
Date: 2004-02-28 06:43 pm (UTC)Hypothetically, all avenues of protest and annoyance could eventually be exhausted, and one could still be left with an unjust law (racial segregation in the US, for example). At what point would civil disobedience become acceptable / encouraged?
You're right, I'm totally merging the process with the "right and wrong"-ness. It makes it hard for me to provide a fair playing field, because I would hold up a pro-equality law as the trump card, while still not accepting an unjust law.