Posted by alexandra_k on November 2, 2005, at 13:31:45
In reply to Re: on Civility » Toph, posted by Dinah on November 2, 2005, at 13:24:54
LOL. I think it depends on what you mean by 'civility'.
> Actually I have never heard that Rosa Parks behavior was anything but civil. That's the power in it. It was a perfectly civil act of standing against an unjust law.
I think it is the act of breaking the law that counts as 'civil disobedience'. In the same way that breaking one of the civility rules counts as an act of 'civil disobedience'. But there can be times where one is justified in an act of civil disobedience (if, for example, one is protesting against an unjust law. Or if one is attempting to interveane to stop logging of a rainforest or something like that ONLY WHEN alternative (legal) channels would take too long to be effective.
> Had she been uncivil about her disobedience, I daresay it would not have been the watershed event it became.Yeah. I get what you mean. In the same way that if someone chained themselves to a tree to prevent the forest being logged that is one thing...
If they blew up the logging machinery that would be unjustified (as there are more peaceful alternatives) etc.
Polite refusal...
Is definately more appropriate than a big 'f*ck you' and pulling out a gun or something like that...
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