They told Thoreau he has to pay or he would go to jail. Thoreau refused to pay but luckily someone else decided to pay for him. In today’s society the equivalent to that, for example, would be my parents paying taxes for public school when my brother and I attend a private school. We do not go to a public school why do my parents have to pay for both private and public school? There are a lot of example of where civil disobedience would really help a certain group of people not all. Most of the laws we have are here for a very good reason, and not all our laws help everybody but they do help a majority of