I’m from the generation of hackers who’s old enough to have believed in the hacker’s manifesto but young enough to have spread the whole of “white hat/black hat” meme and yeah… It was completely bullshit the whole time. Today there are still people who I talk to who are like “oh, you’re not one of those bad hackers though, right?” Like which ones? The ones who work for governments or who keep banks from getting hacked, cause yeah I’ve worked on DRM and helped keep things expensive that should be free. It feels bad because it is bad, and they lie to you and tell you you’re “making sure Grandma is safe on the internet” but these fucking companies are feeding your grandmas conspiracy theories. They are the bad ones, and the “white hats” are keeping the injustice going…just like some other motherfuckers who like to wear white hoods and defend the status quo.
Yeah, fuck that. Illegalism is 100% legit and I wish you the best.
As long as there is a criminal class, I am of it.
As someone who came of age in the renegade weed cultivation scene/culture, I feel this so hard. And I’m sure the community I was a part then would feel this too.
I really do wish tho, that more people in that community have/had that mentality of spreading that same idea outward towards more things that also benefit people, instead of just the nimby-ist/faux-libertarian vibe that permeates the culture nowadays…
There is usually a reason something is deemed illegal by society.
And no, the answer isn’t always just greed. But more like its hurting other people, even when you think it doesn’t.
If something hurts other people, you shouldn’t do it because it’s immoral, whether it’s legal or not.
You, as a person, have a responsibility to decide whether an act is moral or immoral and act accordingly, regardless of what other people decided about it in the past.
Obeying the law because you assume the people who made the law had a good reason abrogates your own responsibility for your actions.
I agree completely with what you’re saying, but what the other user is saying isn’t wrong either: there is always a reason for something to be illegal, and, before you decide to break a law, you should make sure you know why it’s illegal and what the possible consequences of breaking it (other than legal) might be.
It’s sort of like writing a book or making a film. There are lots of “rules” to follow about how those things should be done, and there are plenty of good reasons for those rules to exist, however all the best artists tend to break those rules - but that’s because they know what they are doing, and how to make it work. Another example is the billionaire submarine which crashed. They chose not to follow a lot of safety regulations in regard to the making/using of the sub, and the result was what we know.
In short, if you want to break the rules in regard to anything, it’s important to be aware of what exactly you are doing, and why those rules exist in the first place.
Fuck off, if you want to reject societies norms go live in the woods but don’t drag the rest of us down with you.
Societies rules also claim those woods are someone else’s property, and you’d be trespassing by just going there, much less living. If you don’t get permission to be on the land and permit to build a house, they send armed people after you to beat you up and throw you in a concrete room. Or, if you’re (un?)lucky, they’d make you be called to court, and when you return to your house afterwards, you’d find it coincidently burned down. That’s something that actually happened to someone in the USA once, some years ago.