Do What is Moral, as What's Legal Isn't Always Moral
"It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say." -Ice Cube
2.5 months ago we moved the birds. We tried to appease a bunch of drug-smoking sociopaths, just in order to make peace and avert conflict. "Helping garden birds can be as rewarding for you as it is for them," RSPCA says. After all, sharing is caring.
People can speak for voiceless animals, or animals whose voice humans cannot comprehend. Kapil Sibal said: "The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded."
"The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them," Joanna Krupa wrote.
Last year Richard Stallman published an article entitled "The Moral and the Legal" (reproduced here), in which he asserted: "Every legal issue about free/libre software is at root a moral issue. Before we think about the legal level of the issue, we need to understand the moral level. The legal level is about what current laws require. When we in the free software movement make a legal argument, that is what we are arguing about. However, the moral level is what matters most—it is where our goals come from. Liberty resides at that level, which is why we also call it “libre” software. The two levels are not the same or even parallel. In general, that X is currently lawful says nothing about whether X is morally legitimate, and vice versa. We might propose to change some laws to better follow some of our moral ideas."
Of course there are people who do both immoral and illegal things, then mock the courts. That's an entirely new level of evil.
Anyway, fighting for what's moral isn't cheap. For instance, fighting for women assaulted by evil men from Microsoft [1, 2] can cost a lot of money and time. Fighting for hungry birds (against angry humans) isn't easy. But it must be done. It is imperative. There's no room for compromise here.
Do what's objectively moral, no matter the costs and the risks. At the end, usually, it'll pay off. █