Thoreau's View Of Civil Disobedience
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Sifting through these posts, it has nearly been two years since anyone has added to Jon-Jon's claims about Civil Disobedience. There are several issues that need to be addressed, but first of all, I do agree with Jon-Jon on the point that Ben fails to see the true purpose of what "Civil Disobedie ....
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.... hands of it."
3. The individual should stand against the State or government when he or she knows something to be morally unjust.
A key point to understand is that morality is derived from the source of where we get our rights: God. The Trancendentalists believed that you could be one with God by tapping into nature and its oversoul (which ran through all of life and we could learn from it to better ourselves). While our government has committed wrongs in the past, it is the individuals j ....
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