Efshir and DY, then you would support a prosecutor and judge whose rav tells them that draft-dodgers should be jailed imprisoning someone whose rav told him to dodge the draft? Civil disobedience also implies the willingness to go to jail for one’s beliefs as did Gandhi and Martin Luther King (King wrote in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty”). It then becomes a question of who is justified by the courts of public opinion and history. In some cases they won but in others they were crushed and forgotten (e.g. anti-WW1 protesters).
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