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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Any time you intentionally break a law, usually flagrantly so the person knows you are breaking the law, you are committing civil disobedience.
The Boston Tea party was an intentional breaking of the law to protest what the protesters thought were unjust Tea Taxes.
The nun incident was an intentional breaking of the law to protest what the nuns thought were unjust proliferation of nuclear weapons.
By definition, what the nuns did was peaceful civil disobedience. You can twist my words all you would like, but the fact that the nuns were intentionally breaking the law in order to actually be arrested and thus put the government in a tight spot and cause public outcry is undeniably true.
You change your argument with each post. First the Boston Tea party, in your opinion, was not civil disobedience. Now, you want me to prove how was the nuns did was anything like the Boston Tea party, which you don't think was civil disobedience in the first place. Are you admitting that civil disobedience shaped our american way of life?
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I disagree. I believe I specified my argument earlier and have been consistent since. I am not admitting civil disobedience shaped our way of life, because I have consistently been opposed to the idea that the Boston tea party was this form of civil disobedience. If you have a problem with that, refer to previously stated reasons.
Also, if I wanted to twist your words I'd point out that by associating these nuns with the Boston tea party, and supporting them you're in essence supporting war on the United States. You don't want to declare independance from the United States, do you?