I (nor any other individual) don't get to decide whether or not a given law harms society.
We all, collectively, as a society decide that.
Even if you decide to break a law that has zero impact on anyone, that fact that others can see you doing that with impunity harms society.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of stupid laws. But going around breaking ones that are inconvenient to your business model is kind of a dick move.
In an ideal world I would agree. The problem is we don't live in an idea world and societies methods for creating laws are pretty terrible (without getting into the methods of enforcement).
So we are all left with a very imperfect set of laws.
And we absolutely do decide from moment to moment which ones to obey and which ones to ignore. That's not a moral judgement, it's just life. I can speed or not speed. I have to decide moment by moment whether to do it or not.
So that leaves us with a choice: obey unjust and counterproductive laws or disobey them.
And remember, obeying a law doesn't make it just. Something being a law doesn't make it just. So really when you choose to obey an unjust law, you are just choosing to act unjustly. It being the law doesn't make it just.
So while I might agree in a perfect world, and I don't want to make excuses for people who ignore laws for personal convenience, I don't think it's moral to just issue a defacto "no individual should ever ignore the law" judgement...
I actually think our current society is much too obedient. Too few people think about whether a law is moral or not and too many just blindly accept it or obey only got fear of getting into trouble.
