Question: If you disagree with a rule, law or public policy, it is better to remain silent than to speak out and risk punishment.
My Opinion: Before I read the book, my opinion was that no, you should speak up if you disagree with a rule/law. However, after I started to read the book, I realize that no, in my point of view you shouldn’t. I say this because by reading the book to my understanding, I realized how much authority and power a person can have. I became aware that if someone made a rule or a law and you speak up to disagree with it, what difference could it make? The person who set the law has all the right and power, they don’t have time much less care for what you have to say. With somebody with a lot more authority than you, you could say one to many words wrong and be sentenced to death without knowing what just happened. A person with a huge amount of power and authority has control over the entire country whereas a person who is just part of the society is just one of thousands maybe millions of citizens. Chances are, there is probably a person who agrees with you, but would they help defend you? It only takes one order for you to be dead or tortured when you do an act that seems inappropriate. As you can see, my thinking about this topic has changed after I read the book.
