American Excess

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Not so much HM. If I knowingly broke the law I am wrong for doing so and worthy of punishment. Weighing the odds and deciding it is worth the risk doesn't make my decision right or any less worthy of punishment.

And before anyone goes off the deepend and says "what about Rosa Parks???" With the thinly veiled "you're a racist" left hanging, I'll answer. She knowingly and boldly broke the law and made herself worthy of punishment. She took the risk of very real punishment with the higher ideal of drawing attention to a law she felt was immoral and wrong. I happen to agree with her cause and am glad she chose to do it, but it doesn't change the fact that she did break the law and risked real punishment.

I've yet to meet an illegal who says "I illegally crossed the border in broad daylight in front of witnesses so that I might challenge and rectify this social injustice that you call legal immigration". They sneek in, they hide their status, and they make no political or social point. Far different than the high-minded civil rights movement. So yes, they intentionally broke the law, that puts them in the wrong and worthy of the punishment allowed by that law.