Why do we obey?

"Government is for the people, by the people and of the people" I guess this quote is no longer new to us we have heard and probably quoted this a number of times. But what does this really mean? Ever since, we were already opened to the fact that there are certain rules that we should obey and with it are people that we should take in consideration and eventually obey as well. And so with this, the question Why do we obey? comes into the scene.

I have also questioned my self why dis i obey? After some time I realized that obedience came from fear. I guess people are afraid to make their own decision and they would rather be free-riders along the way. This comes with the fact that some people don't know anything about the things they should and so they end up obeying what is said to them. Like in the government, they say that this and that rules/regulations will make our economy/lives better,and because we believe them for the reason that we don't anything about the heck they're saying we simply obey. Because they rule us, we think that they know what they are doing and they want what is best for our country. In short, obedience may be an outcome of fear and ignorance. However, obedience can also come from trust and beliefs. If one person is knowledgeable and still obeys then this tells us that what he obeys in is something worth it.

Should we or should we not obey the government? I guess the answer to the question depends on the situation. If there are reasons for the people not to obey a government then we shouldn't but if we should then by all means let us give our trust to the government. I have jotted down some factors to consider if we must obey our government. First, to obey the government the government must be unite, and when i use the term government it means all people within the state. Second, we obey the government if its concern is for the benefit and welfare of all and lastly, we obey the government if they listen to each other.

We no longer share the willigness to be one. We can never have a government that we can obey whole-heartedly because our realtionship with our fellow filipinos vanished together with colonization and globalization.