The Socratic position of accepting judicial punishment doesn't make sense if you have anything you want to do with your life other than making a political point. If you think making that point, with its immense opportunity cost, is the most important remaining thing you can do, fine, but you can't assume everyone is at that place in their lives.
I don't think someone should be expected to sacrifice everything on principle in order to be justified in refusing to comply with an unjust law.
> "The Socratic position of accepting judicial punishment doesn't make sense if you have anything you want to do with your life other than making a political point."
More than that, it also doesn't hold water if you consider the possibility that sacrificing yourself isn't the best way to further your political goals.
Even if your cause is more important than everything else in your life combined, you should not allow yourself to be neutralized (jailed, or made to commit suicide) if it does not further your goal to a greater extent than anything else you could do. "Live to fight another day" is in full effect in nearly all situations.
A friend of mine once commented that high treason is one of the only crimes on the books where the penalty for attempting it is infinitely higher than for succeeding, mainly because if you do succeed, you are then in charge of the country.
