The well-being of society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
Since the agricultural revolution which engendered the modern human civilization and society, we have always observed some evidence of social hierarchy and indeed, some form of governmental authority to maintain law and order in the land, protect its borders and culture against foreign aggressors and promoting education and technological developments. With the exponential increase in human population, it is no longer possible to practise direct governance as in the Ancient Greek city-states, which is why representative democracy is practised instead, in which the people grant their representatives and in turn, government powers and authority to decide on complex issues on behalf of the people, with the welfare of the people as the primary aim. The ability to question of this authority is a double-edged sword and I present the following arguments to buttress my conditional stand.
Matters pertaining to national security involve secrets and discreet matters which cannot be disclosed to the public eye. This is because of the very delicate nature of such matters, which at times invlove of a complex array of diplomatic ties, secret or otherwise, of various agencies and governments across the world. When the national security of a nation depends on foreign technologies which need to be imported, such matters must be handled by a select slice of high-level bureaucracy itself in order to maintain an element of surprise with aggressors as well as an absence of a trail of evidence which might link and connect the various secret meetings, negotiations, as well as transportation and delivery of such technologies. Governments spend almost 5%-7% of their defense budgets in developing indigenous defense technologies which would certainly depreciate in their value, if the aggressors already have the plans for construction and indeed, disabling them due to public knowledge of such projects. Thus, for the greater good of national security, and security of the society a government is bound to protect, secrecy is necessary, where questioning of the government's authority in refusing to disclose such sensitive information may actually be detrimental. For example, the abrogation of article 370, which rescinded the special status to Jammu and Kashmir was a governmental effort to integrate the territory into the Indian nation and assimilate the peoples into the Indian society. This leads to a better national consensus and identity, which actually helps in defense, as the border villages actually serve as the second line of control, as villagers report and point out suspicious activities to boder police and the army.
The governmental authority is also a force to which criminals must answer to. This partially provides a sense of structure in society, where certain laws and rules are laid down by the government for a better standard of living among its people, where they needn't fear for their lives and property everyday to be wrenched from them by mightier foes. This governmental authority protects the minority sections of society from marginalization as well as the dangers of a primitive order, where physical or social prowess are reasons enough to appropriate personal property and life. Furthermore, this authority also allows the government to allocate resources to various projects, ranging from space, education, technology, healthcare, etc. A desultory questioning of this power and consequently the decisions, for the sake of simply questioning or arguing for political gains, would serve no end to the society at large, because by its very nature a democratic government is elected by the population to decide on such complex matters which the people do not have enough knowledge to deliberate and decide on. The government, by way of access to larger database of information, experts and technologies, is better equipped to do these tasks, and people should trust this authority with which the government decides on these matters. For example, ISRO would perhaps not have managed a monumental feat of launching 104 satellites simultaneously in space, had they not received the requisite government funding. Healthcare programs such as life insurance policies with premiums of Re. 1 for economically-backward people help them cover healthcare costs without being forced to borrow from loan-sharks at exorbitant rates.
However, this is not to say that governmental authority is absolute. A democratic government is legitimized by the support of its own people and hence, is answerable to its citizens. A need for transparency and accountabilty results in tempered questioning of various decisions which is necessary to realize and understand various decisions and the rationale of the authority behind them. Courts and legal systems are constituted for this very purpose, to provide an oversight which can check the authority. An absolute loyalty and unquestioning attitute toward governmental authority leads to demagogues like Hitler and Mussolini consolidating and wrestling power from the people themselves, with disastrous consequences in turn, like the Second World War. A questioning attitude is required to keep a society democratic, because questions to the authority allow the people to judge whether the government is indeed taking decisions with the welfare of the people in mind. Corruption and venality are also invariably rooted out when people are watchful of governmental activities and understand the decisions. In the end, such questioning allows the people to direct the government's attention to new problems and situations which require new and updated laws, such as gay marriage, environmental and pollution norms, etc. which exist today but did not before the late 20th century.
Thus, the power of questioning is definitely a power which must be exercised regularly to keep the government in check and ensure that the welfare of all people remains as the primary goal. However, this power must be used with care, as incessant questioning undermines governmental authority, which ultimately weakens the social fabric of a nation.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
... is necessary, where questioning of the governments authority in refusing to disclose such ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 258, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: needn't
... of living among its people, where they neednt fear for their lives and property every...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 299, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...eednt fear for their lives and property everyday to be wrenched from them by mightier fo...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...tioning allows the people to direct the governments attention to new problems and situation...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, thus, well, for example, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 45.0 14.8657303371 303% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 27.0 11.3162921348 239% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 140.0 58.6224719101 239% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 5165.0 2235.4752809 231% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 944.0 442.535393258 213% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47139830508 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.54297600495 4.55969084622 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09141442959 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 449.0 215.323595506 209% => Less unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47563559322 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1630.8 704.065955056 232% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.35926911 60.3974514979 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 178.103448276 118.986275619 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5517241379 23.4991977007 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44827586207 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245165024362 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07018540928 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544213859577 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153100386241 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452064066594 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.6 14.1392134831 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.8420337079 63% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.1743820225 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 265.0 100.480337079 264% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 33.5 11.8971910112 282% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
... is necessary, where questioning of the governments authority in refusing to disclose such ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 258, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: needn't
... of living among its people, where they neednt fear for their lives and property every...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 299, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...eednt fear for their lives and property everyday to be wrenched from them by mightier fo...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...tioning allows the people to direct the governments attention to new problems and situation...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, thus, well, for example, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 45.0 14.8657303371 303% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 27.0 11.3162921348 239% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 140.0 58.6224719101 239% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 5165.0 2235.4752809 231% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 944.0 442.535393258 213% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47139830508 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.54297600495 4.55969084622 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09141442959 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 449.0 215.323595506 209% => Less unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47563559322 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1630.8 704.065955056 232% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.35926911 60.3974514979 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 178.103448276 118.986275619 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5517241379 23.4991977007 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44827586207 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245165024362 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07018540928 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544213859577 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153100386241 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452064066594 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.6 14.1392134831 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.8420337079 63% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.1743820225 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 265.0 100.480337079 264% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 33.5 11.8971910112 282% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.