Breaking the Law

I feel that it is acceptable to break the rule/law, when there is a reasonable excuse to.  There needs to be a much larger amount of good reasons to break the law than reasons not to.  If someone were to safely run a red light because their pregnant wife was in the passenger seat giving birth, that is a reasonable reason and excuse to run the red light.  In the end it just matters weather or not you are willing to take the chance or if the pros are important enough to suffer the consequences for the cons.  This man obviously needed to get his wife to a hospital so he weighed the odds and if he got in trouble later on down the road, he would face the consequences, but he knew that it was most important that he got his wife to a hospital.  Some people get confused what is breaking the law and what is legal as self defense.  If someone breaks into your house, that is invading private property and the person can be convicted and sent to jail, but if they threaten you or your things, you can act in self defense and the charges against you can be dropped.  If they charged at you and tried to attack, you can do whatever it takes to stop them weather thats spraying mace in their eyes, tazing them, stabbing them with a knife, slicing them with a sword, beating them with a baseball bad (personal choice of weapon when at home), or shooting them, the jury on your case will most likely drop the charges because you wouldnt normally harm the person, they were just threatening your well being and property.  As long as you stop at whatever is necessary, you shouldnt be charged, but if you hit them with a bat in the shin and it breaks their leg and they give up, you cant continue to beat them to death.  The proper thing to do would be to duct tape their wrists and legs and watch them as the police arrive.