Civil Disobedience

Thoreau opens the essay with a radical paradox: “That government is best which governs not at all.” How does Thoreau appeal to the reader’s logos?

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I think the statement is more of a paradox appealing to the reader's sense of logic: less government equals more individual freedom.

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