There’s a phrase I thought up, which might be a thought stopper or reverse stopper depending on your perspective.

“If it’s popular, it’s not illegal.”

Imagine you’re a cop sitting across from Rosa Parks the day she refuses to give up her seat. Do you arrest her?

Legality should be informed by ethics, and generally they only larger systemic result I care about is “If it’s right, and the law is far from my morality, I’ll trust that the law will catch up to my breach.”

The small danger to acknowledge is when a popular act is driven by hatred or bigotry, rather than actual societal outcomes. There’s no one simple way to address that, but dialog and visibility helps.