Obedience to Authority - The Importance of a System of Authority

Mister wilson, who served four years in v at nom, does not blame either the crewmen or the corsman for his misfortune. He points his finger instead at a system that constrained their actions through the pressure to obey. A multilared and widely accepted system of authority confers an immense advantage upon a society. We are trained from birth that obedience to proper authority is right and disobedience is wrong. The simultaneous blessing and bane of such blind mechanical obedience is its automatic character.