![]() ![]() When a peoples are united, under a common cause, each one will work hard to achieve that goal, and the titular “Civil Disobedience” will not be evident. In a small group of people, in which a common goal was a unifying factor, say in a time when survival was the primary goal, Thoreau’s proposed ideals would be successful. ![]() In order to successfully employ a form of government that “is best which governs not at all”, one must have a population of peoples with similar interests and goals. The overall level of diligence, intelligence, and self-determination within the human population is extremely low. How is it possible to have a ruling body that is strong enough to interfere when needed, yet is trusted, and expected not to interfere otherwise? In order to maintain this type of self-sustaining, non-involved form of rule, one must be in an extremely small group of people, less than 10, even. By maintaining a government that has strong enough powers to help in times of crisis, yet one that has minimal interference with the peoples, one sets up a paradox. ![]() ![]() This is contradictory, in the sense that one cannot seek to want a government, yet one that governs the minimal amount. Thoreau outright states that, “That government is best which governs least”, he is signifying the fact that governments which do not do such, are the superior forms. ![]()
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