1. your personal beliefs
2. non-violently protest it by not taking part in what it
says
3. the mass of men, who are more like machines because they
are easily controlled; others, who are mostly politicians, lawyers, and
office-holders, who serve with their heads and rarely make any morals-related
choices; and a very few men, heroes, patriots, and real men, who serve the
state with their consciousness and resist it for the most part. Thoreau seems
to believe that the later is the best type because they are not afraid to go
against popular opinion.
4. It would be harder because the government is more
thorough with their punishments. It’s harder to get away with things when the
government knows everything about you.
7. Thoreau he is just sticking up for his morals, and he is
trying to show the government what the people think is right. Even if he might
be going against the government, he still wants what is best for the people so
I think he’s more of a patriot. He speaks of how the government needs to represent
and listen to the people. He says “The only obligation which I have a right to
assume is to da at any time what I think is right.” Thoreau is just following
his moral beliefs, and is showing it through not paying taxes for something he
doesn’t agree with.
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