Journal #22: Breaking the Law According to Romanticism Poets

Breaking the law is not good, as made so by our society. Duh. This is obvious, because if someone breaks the law they are punished. If breaking the law was a good thing, "criminals" (now considered regular citizens because they are following the law by breaking it) would get lollipops rather than ten years in prison. Unless you are in some crazy backwards, upside-down, opposite world, that lollipop scenario is non-existent. Breaking the law is a bad thing in this society. Again duh. So now that we got that down, I am going to twist it to match the views of the Romanticism Poets.

So Romanticism poets believed in youth innocence, purity, morality of oneself, intuition or a gut feeling, and human nature and emotions, not science and logic like the Rationalism Period. According to certain poets, their philosophies basically say that if the law goes against someone's morality or intuition or something they believe, then it is okay to break the law. For example, and this example is exaggerated a lot, there is a guy named William. He is a young teenage boy in his prime, and he knows this. He lives in a world governed by a stern cross man, Mr. Mean. Mr. Mean has made it a law for this world that everyone needs to be adult like and wear a clean suit. Sweat pants, loose clothing, and other casual clothing items are not allowed to be worn in public, only in the privacy of one's house. Clause: if there are guests at one's house (guests are considered people who do not live there on a daily basis) then clothes must be in dress uniform as well. William hates this. He is just becoming his own person and he is young, and figuratively speaking, he has just learned how to fly. William does not want to wear dress clothes, because he feels that it takes away from his youthful innocence, that he is not himself anymore, and that he is speeding to quickly into adulthood. He breaks the law, and wears casual clothes in public.

William just broke the law. According to the Romanticism Poets, this would be okay, because the law went against his feelings, youth, and morality.

However, this does not mean that you should go and steal a flat screen television and argue at your trial that you did this out of your own morality and it goes against yourself to pay for a television. Do not argue that the Romanticism Poets allowed this, so it should be fine now. That is wrong and just plain crazy. Please do not be that crazy guy who takes things far past the limit and tries to make them work when it is obvious that they do not work and he is just insane.