Yes and as OP was pointing out, just because you regard them as powerless doesn't mean they are powerless. You can't simply make rules for yourself outside of society because you wish it so. You may, in your mind, disagree. But in reality you will be subject to the legal rules of society.

So to put it simply: they are right because they have the guns on their side. Lovely.

Also, you word it as if this is society's legal system. Society has about as much control over the legal system as peasant has over the dictates of their king. Unless you limit society only to the wealthy and well connected.

you're partially correct, but actually if people just say "fuck you" to specific laws, en masse, there actually is some safety in it, viz. the RIAA trying to sue people for pirating. Sure some unlucky folks will have to pony up their protection money, but while they get shorted, millions of us enjoy the benefit of disregarding that law. essentially if everyone disregards the law, "they can't catch all of us". I'm not intending to make a solid case for piracy specifically, but just using that as an example about the safety in numbers.

Except this makes the situation worse because now everyone is a criminal and the legal system gets to pick and choose who to punish.

"Hmmm... I don't like gay minorities, let's hit them up for all the illegal things that everyone is doing, but which are still illegal."

Maybe there is a defense if the prosecutor says the above line exactly, but in general it allows for unfair application of the law. This quickly becomes 'don't piss off a cop/judge'.

Which court cases have file sharing prosecuted under "theft"? I always have heard of them being called "copyright infringement".