StreetNickel
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If something is completely moral and okay for you to do, no measure of legislative pixie dust can alter the morality of such an act.
If you're not harming anyone or threatening to harm anyone, what good does it do to obey an endless list of unjust laws, just to please some crooked politicians and their edicts?
If you're doing something completely moral and a cop or politician tries to use force against you, what does that say about the person who's stopping you? Do they value law over morality?
When a law is unjust, it is not only right to disobey, it should be an obligation to do so.
"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-MLK Jr.
I get it, don't fly over airports, don't fly over military bases, don't fly over potentially dangerous situations, don't interfere with other aircraft. Any moral person can stand behind these common-sense rules without being told to do so. Yet, any immoral person would do so anyways, regardless of the rules or consequences.
So what is the law really doing? These extra rules don't stop bad people from doing bad things, they stop good people from doing good things. Bad people don't care about what's right, and they certainly don't care about the law... Good people want to do what's right, but unfortunately they confuse legality with morality...
At this point, if you claim to be a law-abiding citizen, you're a liar. As of 2015 there are over 5000 federal criminal laws, with over 300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally... And that's just on the federal level. Unless you can read all 300k+ regulations, you can't claim to abide by a law you don't even know. At this point, anyone can be guilty of a crime and not know it. At this point, we need to ignore the law and go with our own moral conscience. The immoral will deal with the consequences of their actions on an individual basis so that the sane moral people can continue to do what they do unbothered by political tyrants.
You give them an inch, they'll take a mile. So don't give them an inch. Stop complying with these reductions to your freedom to pursuit of happiness. If it's not hurting anyone, it's moral.
At the end of the day, your own moral code supersedes the law. It's about time we act that way.
If you're not harming anyone or threatening to harm anyone, what good does it do to obey an endless list of unjust laws, just to please some crooked politicians and their edicts?
If you're doing something completely moral and a cop or politician tries to use force against you, what does that say about the person who's stopping you? Do they value law over morality?
When a law is unjust, it is not only right to disobey, it should be an obligation to do so.
"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-MLK Jr.
I get it, don't fly over airports, don't fly over military bases, don't fly over potentially dangerous situations, don't interfere with other aircraft. Any moral person can stand behind these common-sense rules without being told to do so. Yet, any immoral person would do so anyways, regardless of the rules or consequences.
So what is the law really doing? These extra rules don't stop bad people from doing bad things, they stop good people from doing good things. Bad people don't care about what's right, and they certainly don't care about the law... Good people want to do what's right, but unfortunately they confuse legality with morality...
At this point, if you claim to be a law-abiding citizen, you're a liar. As of 2015 there are over 5000 federal criminal laws, with over 300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally... And that's just on the federal level. Unless you can read all 300k+ regulations, you can't claim to abide by a law you don't even know. At this point, anyone can be guilty of a crime and not know it. At this point, we need to ignore the law and go with our own moral conscience. The immoral will deal with the consequences of their actions on an individual basis so that the sane moral people can continue to do what they do unbothered by political tyrants.
You give them an inch, they'll take a mile. So don't give them an inch. Stop complying with these reductions to your freedom to pursuit of happiness. If it's not hurting anyone, it's moral.
At the end of the day, your own moral code supersedes the law. It's about time we act that way.
I love it. I just see rc stuff as, if the plane or whatever is your property and its on someone elses property without permissiin, you are tresspassing. Local government can handle that easy enough. The federal government should mind its own business as defined in the Constitution. Welcome to the forum.
