Conscientious Objection

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Conscientious objection means to do the things that your conscience tells you to do. Every human has a conscience. It tells you to do things even though you know they may be wrong, or they may be against rules that people of established, and they even may be right.
In the play the example is listening to your conscience rather than follow the rules. Antigone's conscientious objection was to either listen to herself and do the wrong thing or to follow the rules. She listened to her conscience because she felt it would be the right thing to do. I also think that she did the right thing. I would have done the same thing if I was in her situation. She is a very brave woman for doing what she did.
In the 21st centurey, i think that people would also do the same thing as she did. I don't think a lot of people would look down on someone for that because in todays socitiey the right thing to do is also to bury them. So we kind of know where she is coming from. Now adays we hardy leave anyone unbarried.