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History is full of situations where people decided that the current environment is not working for them and changed them through unlawful actions. Gandhi did it
by maxxxxx 8y ago
History is full of situations where people decided that the current environment is not working for them and changed them through unlawful actions. Gandhi did it, the French revolution, the USA was created by unlawful means, the civil Rights movement Al were unlawful, a lot of unlawful stuff happened in East Germany before the wall fell.
This happens when the general population decides that their leadership is not working for them anymore.
- arendtio 8y agoYou don't seem dumb, but your argument is flawed. You are taking 'true' situations out of context and rearrange them so that they serve your purpose. For example, yes, what happened in East Germany before the wall fell was unlawful, but the context is, that East Germany was an occupied country which changes the whole situation and is not applicable to the modern US. Instead, the criminal deeds of that Nazis were what lead to the situation in East Germany in the first place. Similarly, India wasn't a free country either at Gandhi's time, and France wasn't a democracy at the time. So even if you might find a few situations where unlawful behavior changes the world for the better, it doesn't mean that it is an appropriate tool to solve conflicts in general. I doubt that I will change your mind, but you should seriously consider looking to the world from multiple perspectives.