So its ethically acceptable to to use an immoral system if its for a cause you support? Isn't that how we got where we are at?
Would you support tattoos being exempt from employment discrimination ?
Hey, since we're asking questions rather than responding to posts, I'll play, too.
Do you pay your taxes? Do you take as many deductions as you possibly can?
Do you obtain a driver's license before traversing the public roads?
Do you obtain a CHL before packing heat outside your house?
If you answered "yes" to any of these and you hold ~libertarian beliefs, you have demonstrated that you believe it is "...ethically acceptable to to use an immoral system if its for a cause you support..." if any of your causes happen to be not paying the maximum in taxes, driving the public highways, or packing heat outside your residence.
Come on back and play the ethical card
after you at least realize you're in the middle of the card game.
I do realize the moral and ethical implications. I also realize a few other things:
1. Using the immoral & unethical & unconstitutional system for the ends of liberty can result in liberty gained.IMO, Vermont/Constitutional Carry is the proper regime for concealed carry and that requiring a CHL is unconstitutional. Nevertheless, using the immoral & unethical system to move a state from zero concealed carry for non-LEOs to shall-issue CHLs is a victory for liberty. Not total and complete, but only children nowadays think a war can be won in a single grand battle. Who knows, given time they may move on over to Vermont Carry.
But, that's crazy talk, right, going from no-issue ---> CHL ---> Vermont Carry, while using the immoral & unethical system, right...
But OHTHENOES! Now business owners may have to go to some extra effort to keep the nasty gunses off their property when toted by CHL licensees. They may even have to print up an unambiguous sign and post it prominently.
[or_not]How can we so impose on their property rights? The horror, the horror, of using this immoral & unethical system to achieve liberty! Best that millions be denied liberty if we have to work through the system and sully ourselves to achieve it.[/or_not]
Well, that leads to point number two...
2. I refuse to let the anti-liberty opposition use my own principles to preclude me from fighting them effectively. THEY are the ones who started this war and chose this battlefield. I have zero problem using any weapon at hand and any contour of the battlefield to fight them. I will use their weapons against them, I will use the battlefield conditions, I will do whatever is most effective to achieve the objective.
Unilateral disarmament and ceding the field is rarely an effective strategy.
So, yeah, I'll use/misuse anti-discriminatory law to make gains for liberty. Every day and twice on Sundays. Not just for RKBA. I'll suggest my kids check the "Native American" box or whichever is most advantageous come college admissions time. [sharpton_time]Who the Hell are they to dispute my kids' Chocktaw/Cherokee/Apache ancestry? What, my kids look white? Are you trying to say they are trying to "pass as white?!"[/sharpton_time]
Use their own weapons/laws against them. Flood their laws with absurdity. Monkey wrench the whole system of unconstitutional accretions and make it break from its contradictions.