a work in progress model of protests and mob's
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Assemblies in (1) are almost purely expressive Assemblies in (2) are somewhat more dangerous to everyone involved, because it's very easy to slip from "violating one law" to "there are no laws" when enforcement is infeasible
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Note that I make no distinction between whether the law(s) violated in (2) are good or bad; this is left to the judgment of the reader Cases of (2) may range from "refusing to pay a salt tax" to "dragging someone out of prison to hang them before they are tried" and "pogroms"
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It is straightforward to generally support (1) on principled grounds, even for causes one disagrees with, while evaluating (2) on a case by case basis
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Further implications are left as an exercise for the reader.
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