Conscientious Objection Grade this one!

What is "conscientious objection?"

In what ways does Antigone demonstrate this?

In y our opinion, did she do the right thing? Explain your view in terms of how 21st Century citizens might view her actions.

Conscientious objection is where someone goes against the law and doing what you think is right because of your beliefs and morals. She went against Creon's law saying that her brother,Polynice was to be left out and eaten by the birds and not to be giving a proper burial like her other brother Eteocles. She knows that if she doesn't give a proper burial to him that she will regret it forever. She tells Creon a brother is life. And that she has his back no matter what. "Go I, his prisoner, because I honoured those things to which honour truly belongs" (pg 151) She doesn't care that she will be taken away or killed, she did it because she loves her brother. And will do anything for him. Now in the 21st Century you have freedom of speech and religion. It doesn't mean that you can do kill someone that believes in something and say that that person goes against what you say or do. Now a days almost everyone gets a proper burial. One example of a not proper burial is sucided. People think that if you kill yourself you go to Hell. It's not what God wanted and that you shouldn't be able to have a proper burial with a pastor. You created a sin. And if that was your choice then you have to pay the conquences. I still think she did the right thing. She stuck up for her brother even though he went against the rule. Fighting against Thebes. It was good vs bad on her part. She could either be the good little girl and let her brother be eaten or be the bad girl and go against Creon's Law. She did the right thing. If my brother died even though he did something wrong, I would want him to have the same respects as anyone else.