knewter

He was trying to get the job finished and get home to his family, so he was working late one night double checking the fit on all the nuts, bolts, anything he could check to ensure the job was successful. He did this all the time, I learned how to successfully deliver product from seeing him do it.

A gang of union guys came up to him and threatened to beat him if he continued to work because he was taking a union job away from "the pipe guy", call him Frank.

My dad says "that's fine, can frank come help?"

"Frank's out sick"

And that was that. He either stopped getting the job done or they would visit violence upon him.

I'll never side with people that think this is acceptable behaviour.

My buddy was featured on the cover of make Magazine for building a remote controlled mower he put a wheelbarrow on and turned into a remote controlled lawnmower plus dump cart

This implies that you believe in binary right and wrong and I'm "out" but you lack conviction

You could of course ascribe bad motives to your ideological foes, but I find it weird you don't allow "this law is bad for humanity" as a possible motive.