To obey or not to obey? That is the question.

Civil disobedience is wrong.


In a perfect world, this statement would be correct. To be disobedient, one has to have something to obey. This is where the government and laws come in, which reflect the will of the people. The government only exists because people only see it as a legitimate power. Without laws and a stable ruling power, people realize that anarchy will result. The government is merely there to look out for the people's best interests and only provide fair, unbiased laws. The structure that these laws sets up runs like a well-oiled machine. Then, civil disobedience comes along and throws a monkey wrench in the structure that everybody agrees with. People become uneasy and frightened when a government is questioned, and when people become frightened, bad things always follow in their wake. People will begin to start questioning the government and when more questions arise than the government can answer at a time people lose faith in the way the system works. When this occurs, chaos or a rebellion are sure to follow suit. Then the system, which is run by the government who are only looking out for people's best interests, completely breaks down and must be rebuilt or man will revert to his base instincts and look out for himself instead of the people or nation he used to identify himself with. In a Utopian society, civil disobedience is wrong.