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I would add that another component of civil disobedience is a willingness to accept the consequences, to be arrested without violence or any resistance. I shou
by gwright 6y ago
I would add that another component of civil disobedience is a willingness to accept the consequences, to be arrested without violence or any resistance. I should have included that in my original comment.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago> to be arrested without violence or any resistance. Again, why are people insisting on redefining words because they don't like their meaning? Chaining yourself to a physical structure like a building or tree, and going so far as to make cutting those chains difficult, is one of the prototypical examples of civil disobedience. The whole point is to make it difficult for police to arrest and remove the protestors in those situations.
- gwright 6y agoI would argue that those are examples of non-violent approaches. Another tactic is to "play dead" so that the protesters have to be physically carried away, tedious and time consuming. But those tactics are very different than what is going on and I think it is quite easy to distinguish between that sort of thing and rioting.