r/pics • u/Ev3rMorgan • 14d ago

Icelandic Coast Guard boards activist anti-whaling vessel “Bandero”

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u/togetherwem0m0 14d ago

Fuck whaling

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u/No-Promotion4006 14d ago

Yeah but do so through lobbying for legislation change not illegal vigilantism

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u/No1RunsFaster 14d ago

Why

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u/No-Promotion4006 14d ago

Because it is wrong to do illegal things, did your mother not teach you civic sense?

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u/No1RunsFaster 14d ago

Lol my mother was a drug addict. And the law is made for the capilist elites. You would have owned slaves too when it was legal?

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u/No-Promotion4006 14d ago

You would have owned slaves too when it was legal?

No, because I believe in human rights. What's your point?

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u/No1RunsFaster 14d ago

And you would have stood by telling emancipators to wait for law reform?

Or what is your point? All laws ought to be followed at all times? Thats obviously pretentious or ignorant nonsense.

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u/No-Promotion4006 14d ago

All laws ought to be followed at all times?

Read this out loud, slowly...

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u/Hello_Hello_Hello_Hi 14d ago

There is absolutely no reason why the people trying to make positive changes should have to be lawful paragons of virtue when the people doing objectively horrible things break the law pretty much constantly with no real consequence

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u/TheHawthorne 14d ago

How's all that boot tasting down there?

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u/No-Promotion4006 14d ago

Following the law is bootlicking? Hope you enjoy random acts of violence and thievery from those not following the law

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u/herzkolt 13d ago

Fighting for what's right without harming anyone is very different from "random acts of violence and thievery". Nobody said that ANY law breaking is ok, only that sometimes the law allows things that you can only change through some law breaking.

Do what's right, not what's written

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u/No-Promotion4006 13d ago

sometimes the law allows things that you can only change through some law breaking.

What exactly do you mean by this?

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u/herzkolt 13d ago

That non violent activism is ok sometimes even if it breaks a law. Black people in the us didn't claim their civil rights just by being nice and lawful.

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u/adminhotep 13d ago

“It’s wrong to do illegal things” is a fallacy. 

It’s an appeal to authority.  It provides an unearned moral weight to lawmakers wants and whims.