ABSTRACT
The very dynamics of dissent should be renegotiation. Dissent has to challenge such imposed constructs which assume that people can be enslaved or exploited because they dare to disagree, making them feel that it is their costly sin that they are paying for. For instance, accepting dissent is simply impossible in countries dominated by the state religion; the people of other religions become automatically suspect and are often declared as ideological zealots to be inevitably persecuted. The responsibility of all people to facilitate the debate on dissent in order to disseminate the idea that the role of the people is extremely significant as dissent is the power of conscience and is fundamental to democracy. More deeply, dissent as a critical voice is an accountability to an ontology in which the human community is structured in a way that the power of conscience is able to preserve the coherence of the community contributing to people’s ‘being’ and ‘becoming’.
