Journal #22

Using some of the Romanticism qualities, there are quite a few instances that it would be okay to break the law. It was important to use intuition, so if one thought that they had a gut feeling that something bad would happen but they could stop it by breaking the law, then it would be their responsibility and duty to break the law, so in the end they would really be helping everyone else. It is also allowable to break the law when one's ethics or morals think the law does not matter or is irrelevant. Robin Hood and his Merry Men would be people that the Romanticists worshiped, because they broke the law, but they gave all of their earnings and everything that they got to the poor and to the people that needed it much more than they did. They stole from rich, wealthy people and killed some of the animals that had been deemed the King's to give that money and the meat of the animals to other people who had lost everything and could barely get enough. In fact, they did not get enough food for everyone, so the families had to eat smaller portions, but Robin Hood and his Merry Men helped by giving those people and those families the meat that they had killed. Robin Hood was an outlaw that everyone who followed the law wanted dead, but all of the poor people that were benefiting from his deeds loved him and wanted him to never leave them. Romanticists had a broad view of the law, and they interpreted it very loosely, which helped them get ahead against everyone else in the long run, but not everyone agreed with them and what they did or stood for. The Romanticists thought that the law was not always relevant, and they thought it appropriate to break the law if it was necessary or if their ethics and morals went against the law and prodded them to go against it to do what they thought was right.