Language Tricks:
Vagueness
Example: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon
in the fight for justice.
Euphemism
Example: You should pray l choose the latter.
Civil disobedience is not something for us to fear.
Fallacies:
Begging the Question
Examples:But how can disobedience
ever be moral?
Dyer's lesson or Gandhi's victory?
Gandhi also believes that lawbreakers must accept the legal consequences for their actions.
Does that sound like anarchy?
Majorities do not decide what is right or wrong.Your conscience does.
So why should a citizen surrender his or her conscience to a legislator?
Ad Populum
Example: ln Texas...they lynch Negroes.
Appeal to Tradition
St. Augustine said,''An unjust law is no law at all, ''which means l have a right, even a duty, to resist...with violence or civil disobedience.
Vagueness
Example: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon
in the fight for justice.
Euphemism
Example: You should pray l choose the latter.
Civil disobedience is not something for us to fear.
Fallacies:
Begging the Question
Examples:But how can disobedience
ever be moral?
Dyer's lesson or Gandhi's victory?
Gandhi also believes that lawbreakers must accept the legal consequences for their actions.
Does that sound like anarchy?
Majorities do not decide what is right or wrong.Your conscience does.
So why should a citizen surrender his or her conscience to a legislator?
Ad Populum
Example: ln Texas...they lynch Negroes.
Appeal to Tradition
St. Augustine said,''An unjust law is no law at all, ''which means l have a right, even a duty, to resist...with violence or civil disobedience.