I Broke The Law At Walden Pond--Twice

Breaking laws is often the best and wisest thing a person can do. Should a person purposely break a law, however, he or she should consider the consequences, whether the act of lawbreaking is wise or foolish, malevolent or benevolent. For example, Kevin Benderman broke the law. He was that soldier who wrote a fine essay called Why I Refused a Second Deployment to Iraq. “If you stop to think about it, you become aware that war is just human sacrifice. There is no honor in killing as many as you can as quickly as you can,” said Sergeant Kevin Benderman, after he refused to go back to Iraq. Benderman broke the law, such as it was, and went to jail. We break laws every day and neither the world nor our souls are worse for wear. As Thoreau noted, in such cases: “I say, break the law.” http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman23.html

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