but the desire to be free and to stop unjust arrest should be considered innately human for the former and a consequence of internalized values of citizenship for the latter.

Which is exactly why they made the laws against it. The spirit of the law is that a lawful arrest has to be allowed to take place and the courts should decide whether that arrest was valid. The letter of the law just makes you a felon if you try to stop an arrest, regardless of the situation.