Reply #13: My thoughts on illegality from another thread:

[personman]

Equating legality and morality shows historical ignorance. Many horrible things done throughout history were considered legal by the perpetrators (slavery, genocide and land-theft of the natives, the holocaust, nuking Japanese cities, the Iraq War...). Many things we take for granted today as basic human-rights, were once illegal or unrecognized. (Interracial marriage, women's right to vote, black people's right to vote, and the battle continues for gay marriage.) Then you have things like torture and indefinite detention without charge, that were once illegal (and are now supposedly legal again thanks to the Bush and Obama admins...)

My point is, if you want to put all your eggs in the legality basket... Good luck with that.

"No human being is illegal." - Howard Zinn quoting immigrant-rights protestors.

-Andy