Actually, the comparison is quite valid, given your prior comment. You framed this as, you are either OK with breaking the law (him) or you aren't (you). That is a false dichotomy. You just implicitly admitted that it IS OK in your view, given the proper circumstances. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Ecogen feels exactly the same way. I purposefully chose an extreme example to illustrate that your framing of the issue was itself, extreme.
The idea behind civil disobedience is not to undermine the rule of law. That is why you are supposed to openly admit your crime (or do so in public) and accept the penalty. Other than in a Nazi situation where doing so would get people killed, of course. With that qualifier, I have no issue with civil disobedience. Just don't physically harm anyone, and accept your legal penalty and it's fine by me because that is how you use law breaking as a form of protest without undermining the rule of law.