Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Now people are sharing things that are morally fine, but are still illegal for some reason.
On r/AskReddit, u/kevin_claw asked:
“What is morally okay but illegal?”
And while none of these are as bad as Jim Crow laws they’re still interesting. Also, bviously we would never recommend that anyone should break the law, but if you had to break a law you’d do worse than these.
1. Animal Farm
Where I live, its illegal to name a pig Napoleon –francis-lhalax
2. Random acts of kindness
Paying someone else’s parking meter. –Redditowork
3. Salmon handling?
Handling a salmon under suspicious circumstances while in England –MbMgOn
4. Pirating orphaned intellectual property
Downloading games and other media that have been abandoned by its creator/owner. –TheBrassDancer
5. Or things you can’t buy anymore
Pirating sh-t that isn’t being sold anymore. –ApeMayor
6. Dumpster diving for food
Stealing food from a supermarket’s garbage container. –PeterThorFischer
It would be cool if supermarkets donate the food to whoever signs some papers letting them know the risks of eating the food to make sure they don’t get lawsuits or sued because the amount of food they throw out is outrageous –whydontuwannawork
7. Building in your backyard
Where I live in regular suburbs u can’t just put up more than one shed in ur backyard. –Half-Baked-Luck
8. Buying liquor on Sundays
Buying liquor on Sundays in many parts of the U.S. They’re called blue laws and they’re still on the books in many U.S. states and counties. –Pregnant_Silence
9. Feeding the homeless
Feeding the homeless in some places. –HopelessTrousers
10. Fishing alone
It’s illegal for unmarried women to go fishing alone on Sundays in Montana –cometduke20
11. Breakfast beer
Buying beer at 6 in the morning. I work nights, and sometimes I’d like to go pick up a sixer after a long shift, but I can’t because of these puritanical laws in this country. –bguzewicz
12. Certain sexual activities
Reverse cowgirl in the great state of Alabama. –the_Ush
13. Overage trick-or-treating
15-year-olds trick-or-treating in Chesapeake, VA –EratosvOnKrete
14. Moonshinin’
Distilling your own alcohol, without a permit. I can grow all the stuff myself, legally. I can make booze up to a certain strength, legally. But I can’t legally heat it up and let it cool down in order to improve the flavour and alcohol content, even if my only goal is to drink it myself, unless someone tells me it’s OK.
I’m not saying I want to make my own bathtub moonshine, but… –Johndoe448
15. High heels
Wearing high heels without a permit in Carmel. –DonkeyTron42
16. Giving strangers a ride
Picking up hitchhikers –Disastrous_Course493
17. Freeing booted cars
Angle Grinder Man in the UK. He’d cut the wheel boots off people’s cars with a gas-powered quick-cut grinder while dressed as a superhero. –devicemodder2
18. Teachers making copies
Teachers making copies of copyrighted material without publisher approval. –boyerling3
19. Sleeping while homeless
Sleeping on the park bench while not having a home… –danklinxie
20. Alerting drivers to speed traps
Flashing your lights to warn other vehicles that a cop is nearby. –ItzTerra95
21. Physician-assisted suicide
A doctor euthanizing a person (that is mentally stable) who has a terminal or quick progressing illness. –MisterAvocadoGuy
22. Sharing family history
In many states, showing an adopted person their own original birth certificate. (Or telling them who their biological family is.) –tdlee62
23. Violating vaccine patents
Poorer countries breaking patents to provide affordable medications. –JumpyRoom
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