# Don't get it, What Exit? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 26, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-what-exit/966897 "2022-06-26T15:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-what-exit/966897/4 "2022-06-26T15:52:37Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#): > > It may appear that I’m asking people to violate laws but I am decidedly NOT doing that, unless you think that civil disobedience is against the law. Civil disobedience is, by its definition, breaking laws. [Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/civil-disobedience): > [@](#): > > **Civil disobedience** is the active, professed refusal of a [citizen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship) to obey certain [laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law), demands, orders or commands of a [government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government) (or any other authority). [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/): > [@](#): > > On the most widely accepted account, civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies (Rawls 1999, 320). [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience): > [@](#): > > **Civil disobedience** is the active, professed refusal of a [citizen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship) to obey certain [laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law), demands, orders or commands of a [government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government) (or any other authority). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-what-exit/966897)._