ext_80022 ([identity profile] roaming.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dancerjodi 2008-03-18 06:12 pm (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'd never read it either, though it's been in the bookcase forever as one of those books one HAS to read in order to be considered well-read, or even thoughtful. So now I'm inspired to get to it directly for myself. Great quotes!

(On that last quote fro civil disobedience: I worry about "the slippery slope." Because then some nutjob who wants to follow their own individual conscience could walk into, say, a Jewish or a Muslim schoolhouse with a gun and mow down whomever they feel is a threat to their "right" way of thinking/life. Perhaps Thoreau was just assuming that "men of conscience" would, of course, to be well-educated, generally non-criminal, law-abiding citizens like himself.)

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