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AnthonyMouselast Tuesday at 10:50 AM0 repliesview on HN

If there is a stupid law, there are several things you can do:

You can follow it anyway and make no attempt to improve the situation, allowing the stupid consequences to follow indefinitely. (Notice that anyone who follows the law while doing nothing because they've been convinced reform efforts will be ineffective are in this group.)

You can follow it anyway while trying to change it, attempting to limit the time the stupid consequences exist.

Or you can refuse to follow it.

But the people in the last group should still be trying to reform the law, both so that they don't have to risk being prosecuted for doing the right thing, and in order to get the people in the first and second groups to stop doing the stupid thing the people in the third group are already refusing to do.