Is it ok to break a law you know is wrong and can back it up with a reasonable argument?

No, it's not.. Ask Dr. Kevorkian.

Depends on the law. Were you breaking the speed limit but trying to save someone's life by getting them to the hospital? Did you steal food when Hurricane Katrina hit? There is some rationale behind most issues, but there are some laws that there is NO excuse to break.

As long as you are willing to accept the consequences that the legal system may not believe your argument, regardless of how good you think it is.

There are certain, and very rares times, where an individual may feel compelled to perform an act that appears to be illegal. That is his choice, based on the circumstances and his perception of those circumstances. However, again, if that person performs that act, then they must be sure there reasons will prevail, or be ready for justice to be dispensed. The act itself, if discovered, must be weighed in the light of the legal/jury system to determine its legality, not simply by the individual who performs the act deciding that his purpose and/or intent is sufficient to allow this said act.

I'm O.K. as long as you're not hurting anyone or endangering anyones' life but your own. Like the seat-belt laws. I'm not hurting anyone else but me by not wearing my seat-belt so why is it the governments right to babysit me. You want to treat people like children You're gonna get childish responses to stupid retarded laws that are only there to create more revenue. Money isn't everything. Freedom as an individual American means more to me than money or power could ever mean. I, personally where my seat-belt every time I get into a car, but my brother in-law wasn't wearing his when he fell asleep at the wheel and it saved his life. He had a 500lb box in the back of his Bronco that came through the windshield when the Bronco rolled and got wrapped around a huge tree. The police said he would probably would have been decapitated if he was wearing his seat-belt. There are all kinds of twisted unnecessary laws in this country. The more laws you make the more we as individual adults are being forced to live like uneducated unappreciated retards who need permission just to wipe our own butts.

The fact is, it all comes down to money in the end. People see money as the all powerfull god of this world. Some laws are made for money and some laws are made from money. Has money ever been a good substitute for independence or individuallity? Has money ever reformed a prisoner? Has money ever saved a life? No, people save lives. It's the people who ask for nothing in return who are the real heros to me.

If this country cared about the individuals in it, we would make things affordable and abolish all forms of insurance. What ancient wisdom is this that we live as slaves to the unforseen and the fear of. Live free and in the now. Cross that bridge when you get to it. If there wasn't insurance the price of everything would have to drop to reasonable prices that everyone could afford. As in doctors visits, noone pays more than a reasonable price per hour for everything. If my surgery last 2 hours, I pay $50 per hour per surgion and doctor and $20 an hour per nurse, plus suply cost. No surgery lasting 2 hours should have a price tag of more than $500, not $5,000 to $10,000 like you pay now. Shoot, an ambulance ride or an emergency room visit is $500 automatic now. That's about $450 more than it should be to be a hero. That, my friend, is the cost insurance has made us all cary on our shoulders. The ability to overprice and then use the people that can't afford it as an excuse of why prices keep rising is what insurance is doing.

Thanks for the question. I could go on all day about this one.

Generally, no, unless the argument proves the necessity of breaking the law to save a life or to prevent bodily harm.

You can try and say what you want if you broken the law. You'll just still get arrested. And the judge isn't going to argue with you but just piss him off and you'll just do some time for awhile.

No. You are still breaking the law.

Well, you can rationalize it that way but you'll still get arrested if its against the law.

It depends on what you mean as OK. You may still be convicted, they may however take leniency if there are extenuating circumstances.

You've basically summed up the american judicial system in one sentence!

OJ did it!