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July 30, 2005
 
Henry David Thoreau and 'Civil Disobedience' by Wendy McElroy
Emerson missed the point of Thoreau’s protest, which was not intended to reform society but was simply an act of conscience. If we do not distinguish right from wrong, Thoreau argued that we will eventually lose the capacity to make the distinction and become, instead, morally numb.


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