Obedience In Civil Disobedience

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Obedience has always been in society. It is how we live our everyday lives. It is how we drive on roads everyday. It is how people are to walk on sidewalks rather than the streets themselves. How people accept certain authority and how they take it seriously determines if people would obey law/rules, and that means to what extent they would do so. Luke seemed as a regular man. He was drunk at the time of when he cut of the heads off of parking meters. And so he was then directed to pay the consequence of what he did in that moment, which was getting arrested for his wrong doings. Luke was then sentenced to prison in Florida. Upon arrival, Luke made the prison seem awfully unappealing. He made the prison seem like somewhere he did not want to

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