htown1980: Do you know why the referendum is illegal? It is illegal because the Spanish Constitution states that Spain cannot be broken up. So under the Spanish Constitution it would never be legal for any part of Spain to leave. Does that seem right that a part of a country cannot, in any circumstances whatsoever, declare independence?
hmcpretender: Do you imply that if a law doesn't seem right to you, you have the right to break it? Because then I start pirating games today...
There is always the option to change constitution. You just need the proper majority. If you don't have that, deal with it. It's called democracy for a reason.
No, if the law is immoral it should not be followed. That's hardly a controversial statement. See for example Immanuel Kant, Johne Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Aquinas, etc, etc, etc.
Surely you wouldn't have been one of those people goose-stepping along with the others and saying "hey the laws, the law, we gotta put those guys in those camps" in the late 30s would you? You would have broken the law in those circumstances wouldn't you?
I appreciate that they are very different scenarios, but it is important to recognise (particularly given the history of your country) that the law shouldn't be blindly followed.
How do the Catalans, democratically speaking, change the Spanish constitution?