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Civil disobedience, the most puissant form of protest, is breaking a law you believe to be unjust, and suffering the consequences if necessary. If you break a
by diiq 15y ago
Civil disobedience, the most puissant form of protest, is breaking a law you believe to be unjust, and suffering the consequences if necessary.
If you break a law you believe to be unjust and expect to suffer no consequences, that's silly, but not immoral.
If you break a law you believe is just, then you're kinda evil.
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- dino5050 15y agoCivil Disobedience doesn't involve you getting free stuff. Please don't equate piracy to civil disobedience, it cheapens the meaning of the word.
- tikhonj 15y agoExpecting to suffer no consequences is only silly if the probability of enforcement is high. If repercussions are unlikely then it isn't even silly.
- Czarnian 15y agoRefusing to move to the back of the bus. Sitting down in the middle of the street to block the movement of troops from point a to point b. Walking from Montgomery to Selma. Downloading the Inbetweeners. One of these things is not civil disobedience. In fact, trying to cast piracy as a form of civil disobedience is insulting to the people who actually got arrested, beaten by police, attacked by dogs, had the firehose turned on them, were tear-gassed, run over, and suffered any number of real consequences as they publicly defied laws and a society that were unquestionably wrong. To cast content piracy as civil disobedience, one must accept that the act of murder is an act of civil disobedience because the murderer believes the law against it is unjust.
- diiq 15y agoI do.