Civil Disobedience is simply defying the law to promote a moral standard. There are many classifcations of government in today's world, but any can be defied. Breaking the law and undermining the government may seem heroic to the pro-side, but it is nothing more than a savage defiance of standards put in place for the better of
There are ways to promote your agenda safely without breaking laws.
There are also many cases where laws are wrongfully instituted, but there is always a better method to protest wrongful laws.
A good example comes from the Civil Rights era where African Americans were segregated in normal society. Justice eventually surfaced, through both methods of civil disobedience, and corrected law.
An Example of Civil Disobedience
Uprising of 1953 - a simple strike by East Berlin construction workers lead to an uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic
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My stance- Civil Obedience is wrong. While it may, depending on the situation, be noble at heart, there are better alternatives; peaceful protests, petitions, etc.
Is there ever a case where moral integrity overrides deliberate law-breaking?
There are ways to promote your agenda safely without breaking laws.
source: http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=86Source said:In a democracy civil disobedience cannot be justified. National elections take place regularly, and governments are accountable and can be changed. Members of the public who are unhappy can always lobby their representative or protest within the law, for example by organising marches, petititions, advertising campaigns, or even running candidates of their own for election. All these provide ways of changing laws and policies without the need for deliberate law-breaking.
There are also many cases where laws are wrongfully instituted, but there is always a better method to protest wrongful laws.
A good example comes from the Civil Rights era where African Americans were segregated in normal society. Justice eventually surfaced, through both methods of civil disobedience, and corrected law.
An Example of Civil Disobedience
Uprising of 1953 - a simple strike by East Berlin construction workers lead to an uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB50/
My stance- Civil Obedience is wrong. While it may, depending on the situation, be noble at heart, there are better alternatives; peaceful protests, petitions, etc.
Is there ever a case where moral integrity overrides deliberate law-breaking?