My forth source is about revolutions and that caution that should be in place when staging one, like the recent Libyan revolution. Ferguson discusses that in the view of United State citizens’ political revolution are extremely encouraged, mostly because our nation was founded by a revolution. Ferguson explains that no matter the difference of the situations such as the disastrous outcomes we Americans still tend to side with revolutions. In this article Ferguson says, “Time and again, Americans have hailed revolutions, only to fall strangely silent as those same revolutions proceed to devour not only their own children by many other people’s too.” Proving a point that revolutions can have catastrophic outcomes, which means a potential death count of thousands or even millions of people.
This article and my paper share a common theme that people should pursue moral justice through revolutions against the political oppressing government. The article furthers this theme into revolutions and how they can be very dangerous because of the death toll is usually high in revolutions. In the series Firefly, the Browncoats are fighting against the political oppressing Alliance but end up losing. In this war the Browncoats were massacred and left hopeless of moral justice. Even though the Alliance has great control over the people in Firefly, Mal decides to keep on fighting for moral justice but in a non-physical way (by hiding two fugitives that true did nothing wrong to deserve that title.) Even with the war being over, Mal is still fighting for what is morally right.
Ferguson, Niall. "UN-AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS." Newsweek 157.10 (2011): 2-3. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2011.
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