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To Be Disobedient

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To Be Disobedient From my perspective, Wilde's claim can be broken up into 2 major sections.  The first part of Wilde's claim is that disobedience is a valuable human trait, which I heavily agree with. Obviously disobedience is a human trait, else people wouldn't have the feeling to disobey or rebel against something, it would imply that the emotion I've personally felt while disobeying something didn't exist, which can't be true because how else would I have felt that emotion then. And saying that disobedience is valuable is also something I would certainly agree with, since all emotions or traits are valuable and have importance to being human. Human emotions and traits are what make us human, so all emotions and traits must be valuable in some quantity because they contribute to our humanity. As such, I heavily agree with Wilde's claim that disobedience is a human trait. The second part of his claim is where the real point of Wilde's claim lies, and i...