Role Of Citizen In Civil Disobedience

When Election Day comes around, everyone that is registered to vote does so because they feel as though they should have a say in who is in charge of the country they live in. The question is, is voting a right as a human being or a right as a citizen? Do people do it because they believe by voting they can pick the person they like for themselves or is it an act as a citizen to pick the better person who would make the country a better place? Would people still vote if they knew the two candidates were equally bad for the country? Would they still feel obligated to vote as a citizen? The point is, sometimes people do things in spite of it being wrong because they feel it is their moral duty as a citizen of the country. In “Civil Disobedience” Henry David Thoreau explains in depth about how individuals should not obey to the government if it corrupt or follow laws if they are …show more content…
Le Guin states, “At times one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all…They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city of Omelas, through the beautiful gates”(350). As revealed, some people were not able to cope with the idea of their happy lives to be built upon the pain of an innocent child because they know that is morally wrong. The ethical dilemma, the people of Omela face is a tough situation indeed, but people have the right to do the right thing, as Thoreau mentions,
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the