Civil disobedience is appropriate for individuals, not institutions.
You say this, yet oddly you you seem to put little moral weight on individual actions.
If an institution collectively performs an act that is evil, and the law does not act to punish it, do you truly place no responsibility on the individuals who participated? An institution cannot act except via the individuals who comprise it. Diffusion of responsibility is anathema to a moral society; great evil can be performed on behalf of institutions by "good" people when it isn't their "responsibility".
The reality, of course, is that people usually rationalize their way out of being complicit in evil, and in any case are almost never held responsible for their participation, but I don't often hear people promoting that as a good thing!
You say this, yet oddly you you seem to put little moral weight on individual actions.
If an institution collectively performs an act that is evil, and the law does not act to punish it, do you truly place no responsibility on the individuals who participated? An institution cannot act except via the individuals who comprise it. Diffusion of responsibility is anathema to a moral society; great evil can be performed on behalf of institutions by "good" people when it isn't their "responsibility".
The reality, of course, is that people usually rationalize their way out of being complicit in evil, and in any case are almost never held responsible for their participation, but I don't often hear people promoting that as a good thing!