I have always wanted to start my own country. I feel disenfranchised by the political systems in my country, the United States, because I don’t have values in alignment with any major political party. I’m sick and tired of following pointless laws and paying taxes to subsidise programs and facilities that I disagree with when there are programs that I would appreciate the existence of that nobody else seems to care for the creation of. In all honesty, I think that the United States is misappropriating funding and is imposing laws on me that are simply dumb; what are my options to remove myself from this process and what are the options for other people like me? Efforts to distance someone from the laws of their government should manifest primarily
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In the twentieth century alone, it has been used in Panama, Kenya, the Philippines and China with varying levels of success. One prominent use of the technique was in the Philippines where the Tagumpay Bayan civil disobedience campaign to dispute a rigged election employed to reduce government power was a general boycott of paying for and using government run businesses and even water supplies. In keeping with the theme of risk management, no participants were able to be targeted by their government because of the shear number of participants in the move. Additionally, the unfairly elected president was forced to leave the country. The campaign was effective in assisting people in making meaningful change to their government and had no negative consequences for its …show more content…
It allows for people to push against different issues that they find wrong and when enough people join civil disobedience movements it allows for people to be free from consequence when doing so. Much like a right, civil disobedience inhibits a majority from negatively impacting a minority. Spitz argues that democracy means that people should follow what a majority says, but this removes debate from issues and stops people from changing their minds on issues with the release of new viewpoints and information. It stops the ability for a democratic system to be adaptable and squashes debate for the sake of comradery. Civil disobedience does a good thing in fighting against tyrannical majorities and should be praised for this, not
In the twentieth century alone, it has been used in Panama, Kenya, the Philippines and China with varying levels of success. One prominent use of the technique was in the Philippines where the Tagumpay Bayan civil disobedience campaign to dispute a rigged election employed to reduce government power was a general boycott of paying for and using government run businesses and even water supplies. In keeping with the theme of risk management, no participants were able to be targeted by their government because of the shear number of participants in the move. Additionally, the unfairly elected president was forced to leave the country. The campaign was effective in assisting people in making meaningful change to their government and had no negative consequences for its …show more content…
It allows for people to push against different issues that they find wrong and when enough people join civil disobedience movements it allows for people to be free from consequence when doing so. Much like a right, civil disobedience inhibits a majority from negatively impacting a minority. Spitz argues that democracy means that people should follow what a majority says, but this removes debate from issues and stops people from changing their minds on issues with the release of new viewpoints and information. It stops the ability for a democratic system to be adaptable and squashes debate for the sake of comradery. Civil disobedience does a good thing in fighting against tyrannical majorities and should be praised for this, not