Moral courage matters more than confomity

Ralph aldo emerson says it's better to act honestly and have a chance to learn from your mistakes than lie fall in line with what everyone else tells you as a proper response. The point here is to remain true to yourself, to not need society or other people to tell you how you should be feeling. For every second you spend proselytizing a religion, a philosophy, a political ideology, that is a second wasted towards the cause of actually creating something valuable with your own unique skill set. Most citizens are sitting around wanting things to change but just waiting for some external force or dogma to come along to solve all the problems for them. There's no such thing as