A lot of protest is more about emotion than logic. Most individual actions of protest are not logical, like each of the individual protesting Russians who know they are likely to go to jail. But when enough “illogical” people do enough “illogical” things visibly enough, the Overton window (as it were) can start to shift as they prompt others to ask why they see more and more “illogical” acts in favor of a position. Some will go to far, some not enough, but it’s hard to predict what acts will move the needle.
