Obedience In Society By Nicholas P. Leveillee Of Southeastern College

Obedience in Society Growing up, children are taught to obey authority figures such as parents and teachers. As you grow older, adults are expected to obey the rules and regulations of the workplace enforced by their employer; and citizens are expected to abide by the laws imposed by the government. Usually the act of obedience becomes habit, because people do not want to face the consequences that would be due to happen otherwise. One question however, what happens when an individual’s better judgment goes against those rules and regulations that they are expected to follow? Is the individual supposed to ignore their moral code and abide by whatever their superior expects them to do? Well, Martin Luther King Jr. is a man who did not believe in the segregated structure of the United States’ society in the 1960’s. However, instead of ignoring his judgment he decided to act out against segregation, and made a difference in many people’s lives to this day. Another example. What happens when obedience to harsh laws and regulations are harmful towards society, and people only abide out of
Leveillee of Southeastern College. In his essay The Role of Obedience in Society he states: “Obedience is a part of the foundation of society. Without obedience, naught would exist but chaos and anarchy” (Leveillee). Leveillee believes that without obedience, society would be overtaken with chaos, and any organized type of social or economic structure would be nonexistent. There would be no stability in employment, no way to distinguish socio-economic classes, and no way to measure one’s success. Although Leveillee proves an excellent point that society must have some form of obedience and adaptation towards authority, there are many cases where unjust laws and regulations are put in place, awaiting someone with a strong moral compass to change or reform