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then I consider that suing "The law" is such a famously bad idea that it's celebrated in song ("I fought the law and the law won.")

But that song is about armed robbery being punished by the law, not suing anyone. The lyrics aren't subtle:

Robbin' people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the, the law won

Fighting the law outside the system by disobeying it is a totally different concept from fighting the law within the system by suing over it.

Well, fighting the law outside the system is actually a bit more complicated. See civil disobedience, the civil Rights movement, etc as examples where laws were.deliberately broken to successfully fight against and change those laws.

Yeah, I agree that that's fighting the law outside the system. I don't think it's different from robbery in the same way that fighting the law from within the system is, I think they're similar in that regard. They're different in that robbery commands nearly zero popular support, making it a bad candidate for change through civil disobedience.

true, short of Robin Hood there's not much of a positive example of roberry as civil disobedience.

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