"If you break the law, there are consequences. Period."
This reminded me of something King said in the "Letter from a BIrmingham Jail." (Arguably one of the densest, yet most readable pieces of ethical argument in the entire Western canon.) King didn't casually argue for the breaking of unjust laws; he then insisted that one must accept the punishment for breaking those laws. (Recall that the letter is from a Birmingham *JAIL*.)
The J6 snivelers cannot offer any evidence of an unjust law, of course. (King provides some remarkably simple and pragmatically effective criteria for evaluating the justness or unjustness of a law, in either it's expression or enforcement.) In the case of the J6 snivelers, their complaint ultimately boils down to the fact that the law was demonstrably *just*, in both its expression and enforcement. Their complaint is precisely that they *weren't* given special, unearned and undeserved privilege. That is the root of all neo-fascist populist movements: the cult of victimhood.
"If you break the law, there are consequences. Period."
This reminded me of something King said in the "Letter from a BIrmingham Jail." (Arguably one of the densest, yet most readable pieces of ethical argument in the entire Western canon.) King didn't casually argue for the breaking of unjust laws; he then insisted that one must accept the punishment for breaking those laws. (Recall that the letter is from a Birmingham *JAIL*.)
The J6 snivelers cannot offer any evidence of an unjust law, of course. (King provides some remarkably simple and pragmatically effective criteria for evaluating the justness or unjustness of a law, in either it's expression or enforcement.) In the case of the J6 snivelers, their complaint ultimately boils down to the fact that the law was demonstrably *just*, in both its expression and enforcement. Their complaint is precisely that they *weren't* given special, unearned and undeserved privilege. That is the root of all neo-fascist populist movements: the cult of victimhood.