Conformity
By definition, conformity is action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws. What this means to me is when someone of higher ranking tells you to do something that has an effect on a whole. Conformity can either be good or bad. In V for Vendetta and "Repent, Harlequin" there was a character who thought that conformity was bad for society, and a person should be able to decided for themselves. Conformity is everywhere, even in the United States. We have to obey traffic laws, pay taxes every April 15th, etc. To an extent conformity is good, only when people still have options, but when you take away a person's options that is when conformity has gone too far.
When drafting the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's main reason was to show that the newly constructed thirteen colonies were fed up with the tyrannical King George. Always having to pay such petty taxes on almost everything that the colonists owned. The......
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