2. I do not agree with people violating laws. Who am i or any other individual that i can decide whether i want to follow a certain law or not. Some strange people might think that they love children while they abuse them or perhaps some people do not like the high prices of gas or a new mobilephone. Why pay for it?
We live in a democracy with a rule of law. There are clear ways how to change laws and we can vote for lower taxes but we also have to accept if a majority of people votes in a different way that´s democracy. In a society a individual can not separate the laws he wants to follow from the ones he does not like because as said who knows which laws your neighbor does not like.
I hope these criminals will get a huge punishment and i know what i am talking about i worked several years for german banks in Luxemburg.
A last word about mr schumacher beckenbauer netzer... They should think for a while about the fact that they would not have earned this huge amount of money if they were poles from austrian or switzerland because of so many reasons.
There is a fine line between law and mob rule.
Without a concept of God, in a secular state, the law almost always becomes mob rule.
Documents with lots of stamps and long titles are not neccessarily good or right.
**** Who am i or any other individual that i can decide whether i want to follow a certain law or not
Hopefully a human being, someone that can reason and lives by some sort of moral code, able to see through the fog. Those who followed the orders and shoved people into ovens were only following orders after all! A higher authority does not suspend your ability to think or to know what is right from wrong, or at least so I hope.
If a law violates basic concepts, goes against certain “unalienable rights” you are a hero if you do not follow them. A family hiding a Jewish woman in 1944 is in violation of the law, they are also very right in doing so, even heroes in my book.
**** We live in a democracy with a rule of law. There are clear ways how to change laws and we can vote for lower taxes but we also have to accept if a majority of people votes in a different way that´s democracy.
In a democracy you have the right to not vote, you have the right to petition, picket, assemble, to passive resistance. It was passive resistance that largely accomplished the civil rights agenda of the 60s. Without passive resistance what attention would have been brought upon segregation? Where would Rosa Parks sit on that bus today?
Government is for the people and by the people, you have a right to voice your opinion, you have a right to protest what is stupid, and you are not a sheeple that needs guided by the great government hand that puts the diapers on you as a baby and fills in your grave at death.
***** In a society a individual can not separate the laws he wants to follow from the ones he does not like because as said who knows which laws your neighbor does not like.
Do you follow the speed limit all the time? It was illegal to re-import certain cars and then from one day to the next it was OK. Those people who did it before the magic date, they are criminals, but those after the date are OK?
You Germans always make things more complex than they are. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” The rest is relativistic gibberish, the sort of stuff that is used to justify taking away guns, banning hate speech (Volksverhetzung), taxing people so they spend their money on more ecological or healthier products, or whatever other nonsense for the “collective good” is deemed by the mob as right that day.