Negative Effects Of Peaceful Resistance On A Free Society
Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society?
I believe that peaceful resistance has a positive effect on a free society. When someone is peaceful no harm is done to anyone nor to one’s own because there is nothing bad done from the person seen as disrespectful. A free society is only negatively affected by peaceful resistance when one side of a story is unpeaceful. In which case all the incidents recalled from this year, for example, would be the protestors of the “Black Lives Matter” movement where officers have been filmed using unnecessary forces on groups of peaceful citizens. Thinking of a free society you may think a society where your opinions matter or in any case you as a human being matter. …show more content…
Ali clearly stated that he would go to jail to defend his rights as an individual to not put himself in harm's way or be involved in sinful activities,“Why should me and other so-called ‘negroes’ go 10,000 miles away from home, here in America, to drop bombs and bullets on other innocent brown people who’s never bothered us and I will say directly: No, I will not go.”
The first amendment states that we have the freedom of speech, so unless what Ali said was harmful to anyone, in which case it was not, his statement was not unlawful. In fact his statement was not even a resist it was a judgment call upon himself. A judgement call that pointed out the negative of the opposer who was indeed not peaceful to Muhammad Ali himself.
A peaceful resistance has the word peace in it which means freedom from disturbance, making peaceful resistance the act of someone complying with something that's not a disturbance to anything of any nature. The only negative aspect of a peaceful resistance is an opinion stated to pose a negative effect to its opponent. Sadly the targets of what was a peaceful resistance were those of black individuals and even groups that affiliated with “Colored
I believe that peaceful resistance has a positive effect on a free society. When someone is peaceful no harm is done to anyone nor to one’s own because there is nothing bad done from the person seen as disrespectful. A free society is only negatively affected by peaceful resistance when one side of a story is unpeaceful. In which case all the incidents recalled from this year, for example, would be the protestors of the “Black Lives Matter” movement where officers have been filmed using unnecessary forces on groups of peaceful citizens. Thinking of a free society you may think a society where your opinions matter or in any case you as a human being matter. …show more content…
Ali clearly stated that he would go to jail to defend his rights as an individual to not put himself in harm's way or be involved in sinful activities,“Why should me and other so-called ‘negroes’ go 10,000 miles away from home, here in America, to drop bombs and bullets on other innocent brown people who’s never bothered us and I will say directly: No, I will not go.”
The first amendment states that we have the freedom of speech, so unless what Ali said was harmful to anyone, in which case it was not, his statement was not unlawful. In fact his statement was not even a resist it was a judgment call upon himself. A judgement call that pointed out the negative of the opposer who was indeed not peaceful to Muhammad Ali himself.
A peaceful resistance has the word peace in it which means freedom from disturbance, making peaceful resistance the act of someone complying with something that's not a disturbance to anything of any nature. The only negative aspect of a peaceful resistance is an opinion stated to pose a negative effect to its opponent. Sadly the targets of what was a peaceful resistance were those of black individuals and even groups that affiliated with “Colored