Popcorn can't be made purple.
Here I will respond more in depth:
Obviously your concern for your "rights" in this matter just was not more than the concern for the inconveniences that standing up for them at that moment would entail.
You asked "why would anyone" - Which was why I mentioned Rosa Parks. She violated a city ordinance and was arrested. Why would she want to do this? She knew she would be arrested. Even though she was part of the civil rights movement before her "civil disobedience" she had no way to know if it would have a beneficial outcome. I'd go so far to say that there was a strong likelihood that it could have had a very very bad outcome, especially for her personally.
In fact I daresay the inconveniences that she faced was a bit more than the inconveniences you may of had to endure (with far less of a "return" than you would have had on your "investment").
In her biography she says "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in".
Maybe our "rights" wouldn't be so "infringed" if we all were just a bit more "tired of giving in".
Edit (Had to throw a couple quotes in of course!):
H. L. Mencken:
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
Frederick Douglass:
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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