What is the difference between protesting and rioting?
What is the difference between protesting and rioting?
In this paper, we will wrestle with the questions of civil disobedience, the social contract, and the rule of law, with a focus on justice – social, economic and climate demands. Our Founding Fathers viewed peaceful protest as the highest form of citizenship. To be very clear, I am not going to launch into an editorial on these issues and what you should think about them. However, I do want to note there is a long history of civil disobedience in America.
Socrates, Thoreau and King might rightly be called moral thinkers as they raise the issue of unjust laws and the question of whether or not a citizen should or should not obey a law that goes against one’s conscience. Would you agree with King that “one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty?” Would you follow Socrates advice that “one should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him?” Or would you agree with Thoreau’s extreme individualist position that a man must not “for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?”
Essay 3 Civil Disobedience Prompt
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