ID: white text on a black background around a faded photo of a person with a black face scarf on and a hat that says “illegal” on it:
“But it’s illegal”
"Saying that something is illegal is not an argument, it is an appeal to authority. Laws are arbitrary dictates to control a population, not universal standards of morality.
Credit: freethouchtproject.com
Kant very clearly states that personal ethics should be above other considerations (‘the moral law within me’ and like 300 pages on the topic) and gives an intellectual framework to justify the submission of unethical laws to moral criticism.
Drivel, yeah, sure. I mean, you can disagree, but drivel? It’s not the very hungry caterpillar, I’ll give you that, but it’s usually fairly respected.