Question

After reading Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, do you, personally, feel that the essay is still important to our population? Choose one quote from the essay and explain why you think that it is important (or not), to the politically charged climate in which we live today.

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Answer 1

In this essay, Thoreau statea that it is impossible for a man to bow unquestionably to the state's authority without disregarding himself. I feel that this today is important for the politically charged climate we live in. The country I live in, has started to bring so many rules of linking all their accounts (bank, investment etc) with a Government ID. The data is also suspected to be leaked. The privacy of the individual is compromised. The reasons for this was mentioned to curb corruption and bring transparency. But this transparency is likely being leaked to some dangerous hands and the corruption is nowhere gone. The middle and poor people are the being suffered doing all the formalities to be obedient to the rules. This quote from Thoreau's essay, I feel that is very much true to what's happening. We are disregarding ourselves and bending to whatever the State's authority say.