ShiraDestAntonia a publié une critique de Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau par Henry David Thoreau
Mercifully short, this is not an easy read, and also not quite what I was expecting. I knew of his call for refusing to obey an unjust law, but not of his call for an ability to simply opt out of membership in a State. It's hard to rate this essay, because he is doing several things at the same time in this work. While he is admirably calling for every person to refuse to obey an unjust law, just as a soldier is obligated to refuse to obey an illegal order, he also applies, it seems to me, some of his own protected status, to that of the ordinary or poor person, when he suggests that it is better to put some of one's own skin in the game, so to speak, than to pay mere lip service to an unjust system. He is not wrong, but it seems …
Mercifully short, this is not an easy read, and also not quite what I was expecting. I knew of his call for refusing to obey an unjust law, but not of his call for an ability to simply opt out of membership in a State. It's hard to rate this essay, because he is doing several things at the same time in this work. While he is admirably calling for every person to refuse to obey an unjust law, just as a soldier is obligated to refuse to obey an illegal order, he also applies, it seems to me, some of his own protected status, to that of the ordinary or poor person, when he suggests that it is better to put some of one's own skin in the game, so to speak, than to pay mere lip service to an unjust system. He is not wrong, but it seems that he was also not cognizant of the lack of ability of many, if not most people, to actually do what he was able to do, because not everyone has friends with land to rent to him, or family to help them and keep an eye on them.