Suggested by a young person’s blog post.
Criminal: One who
breaks the law.
But we all know that some laws are bad. Laws can be enacted for
reasons that benefit minority interests, that are pecuniary, that are based on
views we don’t all hold, that accord with axioms which the wise and the good
question, that protect the hold on power of those who make them, that ignore
wrongness for the sake of personal, political or social exigency.
Robin Hood was a criminal. Mahatma Ghandi was a criminal.
Nelson Mandela was a criminal.
‘Criminal’ is a very subjective term. It should be used
carefully and with due regard for its limitations.
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