What is the sacrosanct?
What is sanctity? In a certain sense I have done civil disobedience when the sanctity of my political integrity was at stake. But what is sanctity? In a sense sanctity is that which does not have to be proved, and which, therefore, invites disproof. But the value of the disproof of the sacrosanct is in what else the disproof can accomplish. Voltaire, for example, was known as a critic of the Church, but remembered for his contribution to human freedom and enlightenment. The value of sanctity is that the sacrosanct does not have to inspire offense when attacked; it can defend itself when attacked. And this, is why civil disobedience has to be done, because every man and woman of you is responsible for defending what is sacrosanct to you. No one can defend for you what is sacrosanct to you. And, honest-to-God, this is where the American and Tocquevillian value of "self-interest properly understood", comes to the foreground.
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