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Arguments Against Civil Disobedience

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I think of law as a system we came up with in order to be able to coexist. We tend to believe that laws are incapable of erring but what happens then when these laws endanger everything you believe in. That’s why I think that sometimes is appropriate to disobey them.
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government as a result of moral objections, especially through passive resistance. One case in which civil disobedience would be justified is when people are discriminated against. Since that weakens the moral duty to obey the laws, they are in their right to do something about it. For example, if they decided to take the law into their own hands by protesting, they could because
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