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Originally Posted by tdvance
Also, the so-called "civil disobedience", or breaking a law to protest it, isn't an important part of being a true civil disobeyer to accept society's punishment in return? (both kinds of punishment--formal, by the courts, and informal, when your neighbors no longer speak to you in some cases or similar).
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Yes. Yes, it is. I wrote a column for my alma mater's paper about it once. One underage person drinking a beer isn't civil disobedience, especially when it's followed by whining that that underage person got busted for it. Thirty underage people drinking beers in full view of law enforcement and accepting their punishment is. Heck, even one person can be, if that person does it right.
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