We don't live in nature, though. We live in a civilized society with laws.
If you want to live in nature, that's fine. Go live in the wild, be free.
But if you want to live amongst humans, you live by the same laws they do, wherever they are.
And the fact that you're here, on a message board, indicates that you want to be amongst humans to some degree.
You're not a special little snowflake who gets to benefit from society while denying any sort of responsibility towards it. And by responsibility, I mean living by the laws everyone else lives by.
You may want to be. You may THINK you are. But you're not.
Civil Disobedience is a very specific thing. It doesn't just mean breaking the law.
If you want to go live back in Thoreau's day, go find some patch of land that no one cares about, and have at it. Re-read "Walden" as much as you want. If no one cares about whatever land you're squatting on, I don't think anyone is going to drag you back into society.
We don't live in nature, though. We live in a civilized society with laws.
If you want to live in nature, that's fine. Go live in the wild, be free.
But if you want to live amongst humans, you live by the same laws they do, wherever they are.
And the fact that you're here, on a message board, indicates that you want to be amongst humans to some degree.
You're not a special little snowflake who gets to benefit from society while denying any sort of responsibility towards it. And by responsibility, I mean living by the laws everyone else lives by.
You may want to be. You may THINK you are. But you're not.
We all break multitudes of laws a day.
We have too many laws.
I break laws on purpose, nobody seems to care.
The laws are only important when the lawyer needs to make a buck.
Don't tread on my snow flake!
There's a difference between breaking a law, even knowingly, and thinking laws don't apply to you.
I'm not arguing against any idea that we have too many laws or that some laws are unjust.
That's not what we were talking about.
You were saying we should live our lives according to "truth" rather than laws.
Perhaps you should go read the conversation again. You seem to have lot the plot somewhere along the way.
Yes, I'm just talking about what I want to talk about
I don't fight the law, but when it comes to which one I'll follow in a situation, truth wins out.
It's freeing.
I like you AI.
I appreciate your understanding of law stuff.
Here's one, "nobody is above the law".
I disagree, we're all above the law because we made the law.
Now if we made the law it means we're above it, we can decide to follow it or not.
That is what civil disobedience is, I disagree with your stupid law.
Back in Thoreau's day there weren't nearly as many laws. Those guys could get away with challenging the law.
Nowadays, I agree with you, you can't buck the system, the law wins.
Civil Disobedience is a very specific thing. It doesn't just mean breaking the law.
If you want to go live back in Thoreau's day, go find some patch of land that no one cares about, and have at it. Re-read "Walden" as much as you want. If no one cares about whatever land you're squatting on, I don't think anyone is going to drag you back into society.
So, go, have fun doing that.
Yeah man
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Why are you sitting at a device, interacting with people when you could be doing that, if that is what you wanted to be doing?
It doesn't cost much at all to go squat on some land no one cares about.
I'm sure if you try very hard, you can do it.
So what's stopping you?
It's a pretty simple concept, if you think the law is wrong you disobey.
Corruption is real and it must be stood up to, just like any bully.
But no, you're all like you'll get in trouble.
It's a bit infentile of an argument.
No, the idea that you have of it is simple. And wrong. Civil disobedience is an actual, defined action in the legal system.