Resistance to Civil Government
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Read on Hacker NewsNo, he doesn't get off that easy. I sympathized with that line of reasoning much more before reading Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government . Now I'm convinced that he should either resign or be held as equally complicit [1]. http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html [1] He should either be willing to defend the current system, or he should stop being its agent. Enforcing a law brings the same moral responsibility as writing a law. Timely, in another thread we are celebrating Google for ceasing to be an agent of the Chinese government. We should never allow moral actors to absolve themselves of responsibility by pointing to a far-away law.
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