You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau | Literary Classics #17

in Hive Book Club3 years ago

Deciding against one’s conviction over unjust law, is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country even if men all you all sorts ... what’s the point of civil obedience Andy yet still sharing in the corruption and lawlessness of the dictators. Millions have been killed because of obedience. People are yet obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity... wars , caused by the dictators. This is something to worry about.
Martin Luther King jr. was right when he said “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. It’s just the absolute trubt


Posted via proofofbrain.io