I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
What if when they called a war, no one went?
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.