Do you believe civil disobedience is ever appropriate?

[OtterMan68]

Yes, to protest unjust laws

No, we should obey the law and if you don't like it, try to change it through the vote or your representatives

Don't know/Don't care

[DrPepper12]

Been arrested twice for it. Read Thoreau "on civil disobedience" and "Walden" and you will too.

[exitseven]

Yes, sometimes you have to rebel against an oppressive government.

[DrPepper12]

On that we can agree!! J6?

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[jahaims]

Laws are infringements on freedom

[chzero]

@jahaims

The state of nature (no laws) is short, brutish, and harsh. - Thomas Hobbs (conservative political philosopher)

[OtterMan68]

@chzero Hobbs was also a monarchist who believed people needed a strong autocrat to rule them

[chzero]

Correct, plenty to take Hobbs to task on but you're point is irrelevant to and not an argument against his comment on the state of nature.

[jahaims]

I'm willing to accept nature as it is for real freedom

[DrPepper12]

You realize that is a direct attack on civilization itself? You know, civilization, the thing that has brought us, with caveats, continued progress for the entire species?