Would Thomas Hobbes think civil disobedience is justified?
Thomas Hobbes believed that the government’s rule should be absolute and no one should question or oppose it, an individual or the entire society might suffer because of the greed or incompetence of their ruler, but it was far better to have unfair authoritarian government than to have chaos and civil war. He believed you could switch your alliegence only if the sovereign was no longer able to maintain order over society. The welfare of people or their right to democratic expression wasn’t at the top of his priority list.
