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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I see an eentsy-weentsy, tiny, small, bit of a speck of a difference between fighting for equal civil rights and begging for free condoms so that people can get it on in Olympic Plaza with 30 or 40 of their new best friends watching. But your mileage may vary.
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Heh. I was going to write in my initial post:
*awaits the equating the two protests, despite stating twice that I was not equating them*
But I'm glad I was not disappointed. It gives me the feeling that I know what to expect on CP.
And this whole asking for condom things has worn very thin. How many people around the world have participated in the "occupy" protests? What percentage of them asked for free condoms?
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The reason I asked about the civil disobedience thing is because someone stated that breaking the law took away from the movement. As if breaking the law automatically = evil. However, in my university days I blocked logging roads into virgin forest and participated in an illegal sit-in vs Indonesian official when Indonesia had invaded East Timor. I don't think what I did was evil. So when I see someone take the position that breaking the law somehow automatically sets a movement in a bad light, I challenge it.
If you want to say that smoking marijuana constantly, asking for condoms, etc sets the movement in a bad light, well, yeah.... but I don't think civil disobedience is always wrong.