Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by lazyjones on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:32AM
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> You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply
There's also the opposite example, of people showing more tolerance for arbitrary and authoritarian political decisions out of fear. It's very visible here in Europe right now and for the first time it seems like people didn't wise up since the 1930s at all, the mechanisms that convincingly explained how Nazi Germany and Austria could happen, still work.
Give me irrational civil disobedience over this any time.
There's also the opposite example, of people showing more tolerance for arbitrary and authoritarian political decisions out of fear. It's very visible here in Europe right now and for the first time it seems like people didn't wise up since the 1930s at all, the mechanisms that convincingly explained how Nazi Germany and Austria could happen, still work.
Give me irrational civil disobedience over this any time.