Ah a very interesting discussion. The thing that immediately comes to mind is you can or even should break it when the law is unjust (racism, religious rules that exclude people etc) but what one person deems just can be unjust for another. And so when is it 'unjust enough' for it to be ok to break the law. I think we can all agree that those who demonstrated against say Apartheid were pretty justified in doing so. How do we feel though about those who did violent attacks on people as a protest against apartheid? It quickly becomes very difficult.
From my own country the occupation of the Germans immediately comes to mind: from 1940-1945 Netherlands was occupied and many broke the laws of the Nazi oppressors. Now we see those people as heroes who rightfully broke the laws.
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