Thoughts after the Judgement

The election commissoners were jailed today after the judge pointed guilty to what they had been accused for illegal actions for elections. In one hand I was sad with them concerning what they are , and what they were, with their age which supposeed to live happily, let's say it in general way. But in another hand, though many people had been pointing, suggesting or even asking them to do something to find way out of the uncomfortable numbness of our political disagreement, they instead choose to do, correct, nothing that they had done wrong through many public announcements to declare what they did were legally right. What make them believe so much that what they did were right and risk putting their lives, hounours and many things they did in their whole life into the bet that they cannot be sure for the final result? Many questions had been in my head already