What are some problems with civil disobedience? Can you connect theories from Threau and King Jr with this, with support information? What exactly is civil disobedience, it's too broad of a word.
2006-09-13 20:14:32 · 6 answers · asked by guru 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It costs tax payers too much money in police overtime :)
2006-09-13 20:18:51 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that its every persons right to protest and get into civil disobedience - as long as they are also working through legal means as well.
MLKjr disobeyed some laws that were demeaning to some, but considered normal by others... at the same time he was talking to government officials and lawmakers to change those laws.
Same with Ghandi - fighting both 'in the system' and acting 'against the system'.
Militant (as in carefully organised, mass, dedicated) nonviolent civil disobedience is well known to most dissident groups - or who the government now call 'terrorists' -- not all sedition or dissidence IS terrorism in the true sense. Its only when the group leaves the 'nonviolence' and starts physically attacking others that it is truely terrorist.
To uphold the core principals of civil disobedience you can NOT demonise the other side, you should not hate them... see the wiki-post.
2006-09-14 03:26:26 · answer #2 · answered by Tish-a-licious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could not connect it to Thoreau or King Jr but civil disobedience could put the Government into a stand still and will lost a lot of profit from it.
2006-09-14 03:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Civil disobedience is essentially any peaceful activity of protest against the government with the end in view of overthrowing it or to give in to the demands of the protests. It takes in the form of rallies, sit-ins, strikes and boycotts. It is usually effective in a democratic society where public opinion is at its strongest.
Civil disobedience's effectivity depends on the intensity and resolve of the leaders and their participants, as government forces tend to crack it down will force and arrests. The danger of course is that leaders and participants have a chance of getting arrested for charges ranging from illegal assembly, public disturbance, sedition and sometimes rebellion.
2006-09-14 03:22:04 · answer #4 · answered by koolkat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is most suitable way to fight a bad government. But a Gandhiji like personality only lead it to victory.
2006-09-14 03:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Rammohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If having a criminal record is no barrier to oppose behaviour and laws that one against. This is all I can think at this tyme.
2006-09-14 03:17:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋