Most people today have an unquestionable obedience to authority, it's the worst sin of them all to disobey somebody in a position of power. This is unfortunately a bad genetic trait that humans carry, due to the way we have evolved. We evolved from small tribes, tightly controlled by the best leaders living under the harshest of conditions. If they wouldn't have done this in the past, there would have been no humanity now, because the chieftains that were sloppy, sent their tribes into doom. So only the best tribes have survived, who had the best leaders.

Alright, but the question is, does this principle still apply? Sure it's engraved in our DNA, but does it still apply? Just as you still have wisdom teeth and appendix, which have no role whatsoever, the human body and personality still carries ancient obsolete relics that might not be useful in this age, or be quite harmful.

While obeying authority in a harsh condition, where it was a matter of survival might be useful, especially since in those harsh conditions only the best leader emerges in order to save those humans from extinction.

In this age, where humanity has pretty much extended itself both physically, and intellectually, it looks like obeying authority has way more downsides than benefits.

If an authority commands a soldier to push the red button, therefore initiating nuclear war, he only thinks of it from his perspective. He must obey his commander, because disobeying him is the greatest sin, and he thinks that if they strike first, they might have a chance of survival. Totally wrong of course, because his enemy thinks the same way. And so thus both sides initiate nuclear launch against the other, both of them will take an equal amount of nukes, and thus ending human life on Earth.

That is what happens if people obey authority now, Nuclear War. Do I need to mention what the Nazis did? How they carried out the Holocaust without any remorse, they were just following orders. An order is an order, and you can't question it, but that didn't absolved them from the extreme sins they have committed.

People have to realize that obeying authority in this age only leads to death and destruction, literally. Whether it's a solder that is ordered to strike a hospital, or whether it's a police officer murdering a 6 year old kid, or whether it's that soldier that will push the red button ending human life on Earth through Nuclear War.

It doesn't work anymore. There are over 7 billion people, and there literally can't be a leader anymore that is righteous, you can't micro-manage 7 billion people, you have to let them do what they want.

Any Government that tries to micromanage a society will only add more internal pressure into it, and where the pressure builds up, it has to come out somewhere, so only death and chaos will be the result of it.

Think of the recent Indian cash ban, where they banned several banknotes in India. It had resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, because they banned banknotes overnight, without preparation. This is extreme coercion, extreme exercise of authority on a massive scale. Literally introducing massive change in society in 1 day, affecting the lives of 1 billion people. Needless to say that this has introduced massive pressure in the Indian economy which will come out in one way or the other. There were already riots, but this could only get worse, unforeseen consequences could happen to the Indian economy, that the government had no clue about and had no idea to anticipate it, simply because of this massive initiation of force.

The more you micromanage a society, the more pressure builds up that will end with the collapse of that civilization. While in a small tribe of 30-50 people, this pressure is tiny, well it might result in the disobedience of future kids in the tribe, which has happened many times in the Native American community, how many kids there have assimilated and left the Reservations, due to not liking their tribal lifestyle. But it could be a lot worse in a big society, where we are talking about hundreds of million of people going crazy.

I mean if the governments ban cash entirely, due to the limited nature of the banking system (and trust me there will be many failures, like credit cards not functioning, they can't guarantee 100% uptime for billions of people), then the people will go crazy. That will be the end of civilization, a massive economic collapse of the magnitude we have never seen before, simply because governments have gone way out of line in the past 200 years, and have tried to micromanage every faucet of our lives.

Thus it shows that obeying authority only causes mayhem in the longterm, every single time. The only way to have a longterm stable society is to have a free society where coercion is little or none, and people can live freely without having pressure put on them.

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