Civil Disobedience

Thoreau explains the moral need for civil disobedience is by stating that one person's principle should not be undermined by the government orders. The citizens must act on what they think is right; not by foolishly following the government orders. Thoreau also mentions about the citizens use of their bodies, their heads, and their consciences to serve the government. He describes that the best way to serve the government is by using the conscience, not the body or the head. Not to mention, he compares the citizens who follow the government orders to be mindless and soulless machines, as if they do not have a mind of their own. All in all, Thoreau ideals of a government is a government that does not intervene into the citizens' problems, which is a government that does best when it does not govern at all.