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<p>Prompt is do people listen to authority too easily? </p>
<pre><code> People often obey those with authority simply because they don’t want to think for themselves. Several events from different eras in history clearly demonstrate that people, in general, tend to be too willing to listen to those in charge.
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<p>As demonstrated by Joseph Stalin, the human race is often too willing to those in charge. Stalin was a ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union during the mid 1900’s who felt no apathy towards any of his people. He would routinely send his army into battle without a thought of those that would die. In World War II, the Soviet Union’s casualties greatly outnumbered those of their enemy, the Germans. Despite this, it was the Germans who lost the war, due in large part to Adolf Hitler underestimating how little Stalin cared about his people. These people who Stalin sent to die hardly made a protest at all. Not protesting, and instead listening to Stalin, led to over 1,000,000 Russian deaths. </p>
<p>Terrorism is a direct consequence of people listening to authority over listening to common sense. Certain people teach that if you kill other people and you die in the process, you go to heaven and receive 72 virgins after death. They offer many different reasons why this is true- some will look for proof in religious books, while others will focus on the inherent failings that come with being human- but anyone with common sense that actually thinks about this for a little bit will realize that blowing yourself up and killing people cannot be the right thing to do. Of course, too many people don’t think, and instead obey others, which is why we continue to have to fight terrorism to this day.</p>
<p>Another classic example is Bernard Madoff. Madoff was one of the top people to go to if you had extra money that you wanted to invest. He has thousands of clients, who all trusted his word that he would make them money. These people didn’t use their own investing skills to make money, and they didn’t even look closely enough into the man that they were trusting with their money. Madoff took advantage of that, and ran a Ponzi scheme that stole billions of dollars from people all over the world. If these people had been a little more careful and not trusted the authoritative opinion at his word, many people would not be forced to become so frugal with their money over the last few years.</p>
<p>After a careful analysis of Joseph Stalin, terrorism, and Bernard Madoff, one can see that people do, indeed, listen to authority too easily. It is clear that blindly listening to others has many negative connotations. In order to have a better experience in life, one must learn to rust their instincts over their superiors, or at least to keep an open mind</p>