everything comes down to a moral compass of some kind. Your comment expects some sort of objective measurement of good and evil, but I don't see any. The law can be, and is often, in the wrong.
Most people seem to think this law (if it is held up in court) is wrong and should be changed.
You might say, oh well, we have a democratic right to change or influence our laws. But a princeton study has found no correlation between public preferences of the majority of the population and enacted policy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
From memory, the only thing that leads populations to revolt against their government is high enough food prices. Outside of that, revolts almost never happen.
What I'm trying to say is A) unjust, monopolistic, or excessive laws are probably more normal than the opposite because B) the idea that democracy means people have some weigh in lawmaking might be a myth and C) most people don't do anything about it because they only act when the very basics of their livelihood are threatened.
Your view, that some unjust or excessive laws are preferable to total chaos, seems to carry the assumption that laws are naturally benign and/or made to serve some purpose for society, therefore we should not challenge them without good reasons to do so. If the opposite is true and most laws or a high enough number of them are not just, then the fact that the vast majority of people disagrees with them is only natural.
This is a fairly long-winded way of saying that most people would say you're being downvoted because there are plenty of terrible laws that we should not acquiesce to silently.
Most people seem to think this law (if it is held up in court) is wrong and should be changed.
You might say, oh well, we have a democratic right to change or influence our laws. But a princeton study has found no correlation between public preferences of the majority of the population and enacted policy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
From memory, the only thing that leads populations to revolt against their government is high enough food prices. Outside of that, revolts almost never happen.
What I'm trying to say is A) unjust, monopolistic, or excessive laws are probably more normal than the opposite because B) the idea that democracy means people have some weigh in lawmaking might be a myth and C) most people don't do anything about it because they only act when the very basics of their livelihood are threatened.
Your view, that some unjust or excessive laws are preferable to total chaos, seems to carry the assumption that laws are naturally benign and/or made to serve some purpose for society, therefore we should not challenge them without good reasons to do so. If the opposite is true and most laws or a high enough number of them are not just, then the fact that the vast majority of people disagrees with them is only natural.
This is a fairly long-winded way of saying that most people would say you're being downvoted because there are plenty of terrible laws that we should not acquiesce to silently.