Civil disobedience is a form protest against some laws, demands or commands of a certain government. It’s usually a nonviolent civil resistant act. To reach an active civil disobedience, theories say that protestors may choose to break deliberately some laws like occupying illegally a place or making a peaceful blockade. However, the activist should always expect a violent reaction from the authorities like getting beaten, attacked or even arrested. So lots of them undergo training on how to react peacefully when abused. Moreover, lots of rules were outlined by Gandhi, when he was leading a civil resistant to obtain India’s independence from Britain, not to express any anger, surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but refuse to surrender property held in trust, to accept being arrested by the authorities, protect officials from assaults, to restrain oneself from cursing, swearing and insulting, to obey the opponents orders and to never retaliate are all rules that were never pardoned when broken. There are many reasons why someone may decide to start a civil disobedience, however Ronald Dworkin an American philosopher settled down three types of civil resistant:
· “Integrity-based" civil disobedience happens when someone believes that a certain law is immoral.· "Justice-based" civil disobedience occurs when a citizen wants to lay claim to some right denied to him.
· "Policy-based" civil disobedience transpires when a person breaks the law in order to change a policy he believes is wrong in a dangerous manner.
The first type was indeed used in the case of northerners who declined a law that imposed a citizen to turn over any slaves who escaped to authorities. The second type was used when black people all around the world demanded equality before the law. To conclude it’s not important how laws could be immoral, or how wrong could they be. However it’s important to be really civilized while claiming your rights.
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