The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Government and authority in this world exist all in the spectrum from complete anarchy to completely authoritarian regimes. While it is true that neither of the extreme ends of the spectrum are viable for long term governance and conducive for the growth of a country, the question remains that where on the spectrum does the sweet spot lie. While there is no panacea for this everlasting question, there is definitely a trend. It can be said that more the citizens of a country can and do question authority the better is the well-being of the society.
The questioning of authority can be best shown by the fiction of media and news houses. It can be fairly said that the countries with great press freedom allow greater questioning of their authority, and the same has been shown by the correlation between degree of press freedom with governance parameters like Human Development Index (HDI). Another factor grossly overlooked is the consumption of this free press, that is, how many citizens actually make use of this free press to question the government. It has been shown by several reports that, within countries with similar freedom of press indexes, the governance factors like HDI were in strong correlation with media consumption numbers and percentage of the population that actively participated in or observed exercises or news decimation by the press.
Additionally, a society where it is the norm for people to question authority, there is severe check on the misuse of authority. This can be exemplified by the coal fill caving in incident at Jharia, in India. Major section of the world's biggest coal mine had caved in due to purposeful neglect of safety procedures and caused severe loss of life. The local authorities attempted a massive coverup and containment, to prevent major legal actions against the state run corporation responsible. However, the people of the area question this misuse of authority, quite literally and started a form of protest where all government offices would only receive request for proper redressal of the coal mine issue and in a matter of 10 days, more than 17000 letters and 8500 in person requests had been received and the matter gain national traction and was taken up for a proper probe.
While, it true that in most cases, greater questioning of authority allows for betterment of society, there are a few necessary limitations to this, and the biggest of them is national security and safety of the citizens. The state needs to keep this information secret to protect national interest and cannot adhere to public questioning about this at a deeper level. For instance, most countries have special rules for arrested terrorists that do not even give them the right to an attorney, while the public may want to question this authority, it is better, given the nature of the situation, to give the government the benefit of doubt.
Thus it can be concluded that a society with politically aware citizens who actively engage in dialogue and question the authorities, has more people centric policies and better governance. Though some qualifications are required on this questioning as in the case of national security, on the whole it is in the well-being of society for people to question the authority.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'worlds the biggest'.
Suggestion: worlds the biggest
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Message: Did you mean 'trues'?
Suggestion: trues
...ken up for a proper probe. While, it true that in most cases, greater questioning...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...he government the benefit of doubt. Thus it can be concluded that a society with...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, for instance, in most cases, it is true, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 12.9106741573 256% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2733.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 543.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03314917127 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77319205403 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489871086556 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 859.5 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.1906678478 60.3974514979 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.833333333 118.986275619 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1666666667 23.4991977007 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147932390419 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562662141371 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0384145924092 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0955389106096 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378916491271 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.8420337079 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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