Peaceful, and I stress peaceful, resistance to an unjust law is a net positive towards society. I say this because of the lack of viable alternative options in the face of injustice. These other options are sorely limited, coming down to small variations on the following: Violent resistance (which lends itself to extremism and the replacement of one corrupt system with another corrupt system) and outright non-resistance (which lends itself to collaboration and in turn a total lack of any change). This leaves the only option to change an unjust law as non-violent or otherwise peaceful resistance. Non-Resistance means there will be no change. The other option is oftentimes even worse.
As mentioned above, Violent Resistance gives too much of a …show more content…
Said government, even after the fall of Robespierre and the other extremist leaders, was plagued by coups and instability, as those that succeeded him followed the precedent of armed takeover previously established. The result was a succession of equally incompetent governments that finally culminated in the country being taken over by a military Dictator in Napoleon Bonaparte, who then pursued a solid decade's worth of expansionist wars that cost millions of lives and ended with France under military …show more content…
Post-industrialization, the Theory of Non-Violence had been developed somewhat, with Labor Unions and Strikes being the first attempts at resistance without starting a war. Due largely to the incompetence of the Tsar and the ongoing Great War, they made very little initial progress. This changed when the Germans smuggled Vladimir Lenin back into the country and he began preaching for immediate revolution. Things turned violent, the Tsar was forced to abdicate and a provisional government was set up. But for the Bolsheviks, that wasn't enough. When the Provisional Government refused to back the Russians out of the war, Lenin and his extremists hijacked the entire revolutionary movement, established a communist state and plunged the country into a years-long civil war that killed millions and culminated in the rise of Stalin.
Finally, we reach the modern day and, more particularly, the Arab Spring. Again, things started peacefully, with simple and largely non-violent protests starting in Tunisia and spreading to the rest of the Middle East. Soon enough however, the situation deteriorated. It began with Libya, where the protests began to turn violent. The rest of the region followed suit, and by the end of the year the entirety of the Middle East was in chaos. Of all the countries that rose up during the Arab Spring, only Tunisia can be said to be a success
As mentioned above, Violent Resistance gives too much of a …show more content…
Said government, even after the fall of Robespierre and the other extremist leaders, was plagued by coups and instability, as those that succeeded him followed the precedent of armed takeover previously established. The result was a succession of equally incompetent governments that finally culminated in the country being taken over by a military Dictator in Napoleon Bonaparte, who then pursued a solid decade's worth of expansionist wars that cost millions of lives and ended with France under military …show more content…
Post-industrialization, the Theory of Non-Violence had been developed somewhat, with Labor Unions and Strikes being the first attempts at resistance without starting a war. Due largely to the incompetence of the Tsar and the ongoing Great War, they made very little initial progress. This changed when the Germans smuggled Vladimir Lenin back into the country and he began preaching for immediate revolution. Things turned violent, the Tsar was forced to abdicate and a provisional government was set up. But for the Bolsheviks, that wasn't enough. When the Provisional Government refused to back the Russians out of the war, Lenin and his extremists hijacked the entire revolutionary movement, established a communist state and plunged the country into a years-long civil war that killed millions and culminated in the rise of Stalin.
Finally, we reach the modern day and, more particularly, the Arab Spring. Again, things started peacefully, with simple and largely non-violent protests starting in Tunisia and spreading to the rest of the Middle East. Soon enough however, the situation deteriorated. It began with Libya, where the protests began to turn violent. The rest of the region followed suit, and by the end of the year the entirety of the Middle East was in chaos. Of all the countries that rose up during the Arab Spring, only Tunisia can be said to be a success