A stupid question...you are standing at a red traffic light, no cars coming...common sense is that is safe to cross the junction with the red light!
I will not cross, because the rules says that I cannot, what will you do?
You can please yourself. If you are ticketed for jaywalking or hit by a vehicle you failed to see, or never again give it a second thought, that is simply a matter for you. If, on the other hand, you are in charge of a party of 30 school children would the decision and process be the same? Then your action would affect others for whom you had been charged with responsibility for their safety. There are potential repercussions that extend beyond the immediate action. If your actions either directly or in part contributory resulted in injury or damage to one of those charges, you may find that the support and protections in place to defend you have suddenly evaporated. You may then lay yourself and or your employer open to charges of recklessness and or negligence simply because you had felt it safe to ignore the rules.
As most experienced pilots will certainly know, there are times when you have to make difficult decisions, and sometimes those decisions might be completely at variance with the rules or standard procedures. You are required to make a quick calculated risk as to the best course of action with the intention of providing for the safest possible outcome. That however should not be confused with the requirement to comply at all other times with the statutory and regulatory requirements laid down for the "standard" operation you are charged with. Likewise your employer pays you to contractually provide a service in accordance with the foregoing and their own commercial interests.
If you want to make a protest or display maverick behavioral tendancies, ignore rules, procedures or anything else, do it in your own time and with your own property. The consequences of such actions or behaviour then fall to you and not your employer or anybody else whose charge is your responsibility.
In all of us there is an element of admiration for the "characters" and "mavericks" that perhaps say the things and take the actions that we would never be prepared to. But it is rank hypocrisy to use anonymous usernames to pledge undying support for this behaviour when you know the likely repercussions of such behaviour, if allowed to be widespread, unchecked or unchallenged.