The answer is A: the role the government should play in people´s lives.
Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, which was a form of philosophy that originated in the USA at the turn of the 19th century, focused on the harmony of the human spirit and nature and against the vices that society´s institutions bring onto the individual. In his essay, Resistance to civil disobedience, Thoreau makes an argument against the government´s intrusion on individuals´ consciousness and how people should not permit the government, by that alienating intrusion, to make them agents of injustice against others.
