This topic raises the controversial issue of whether it is beneficial for a society when questioning authorities is widely popular. Indisputably, a critical mind helps people to ensure a purpose of a settled act and trains the brain to come up with creative and helpful ideas, as well as helps to bring science forward through not merely accepting facts. Nevertheless, authorities are often crucial for a steep learning curve of inexperienced learners in a particular area and make a more efficient learning of procedures possible. Therefore, I generally disagree with the statement that a society’s well-being certainly increases through overly questioning authorities.
First, the system of authorities exists since thousands of years for a good reason. If someone is very experienced in a field, the possibility that this person knows better how to deal with upcoming problems within that field, and what basics are important to learn for beginners, is very high. I want to point out that complex systems involving many people are based on that principle and would collapse without the use of authorities. To illustrate, let us look at the example of a big army. In this circumstance, obviously, high-level strategies and quick reactions are only possible when authority’s words are respected and followed without questioning them. Consequently, it is pretty clear that in some systems, authorities are crucial and therefore not to be questioned by the majority of its stakeholders.
Secondly, continuously questioning authorities on an immature state of learning something new can be very time-consuming and, therefore, plunges efficient working. Specifically, when basic knowledge of an area is getting introduced and taught by an authority, accepting the approach the authority chooses to transfer the knowledge can be very beneficial for the learners and, hence, for the society since it results in better-educated people. In school, for instance, the questioning of basic knowledge of math, the native and a foreign language and other subjects taught can make the students lose valuable working time they could spend studying. In this example, parents questioning the curriculum can cause the same effects. Hence, the evidence above shows that the statement has to be understood dependent on conditions of the environment.
Admittedly, questioning the decisions and standing of authority can be beneficial for the society as well. To catch up the earlier example of pupils in school, during their last high-school years, questioning the topics can be very important to practice critical thinking and supports developing a fruitful and creative mind. The questioning of state authorities can be very important as well, as history has shown us several times like in Germany around 80 years ago. However, the above statement argues that many people questioning authority are enhancing the well-being of society without any restrictions or attached conditions.
In conclusion, although there are plausible arguments and situations where questioning authority is increasing the prosperity of a society, it should be not applied in every sector to avoid negative effects. As long as it is well thought out and does not hold people back from making complex, society-wise important systems unable to remain, it can be important to improve the society. However, it is not a guarantee that with more questioning, the society increases in well-being.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to, for instance, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2929.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 535.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47476635514 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16721457182 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521495327103 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 905.4 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3189374511 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.136363636 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3181818182 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63636363636 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202125331396 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671463022818 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0479531802073 0.0758088955206 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121649520719 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301952508989 0.0667264976115 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 100.480337079 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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