Do you question authority?

I usually don't question it out loud to them, I just let it build up. But then you usually end up in a bigger mess than you probably would have by doing this. I think this is how I lost my job, even though they called it downsizing. :)

I used to be like you and think that all the doctors and teachers and so on were always right. Now that I am older I know they are just humans too, and aren't always right, or know everything in their field. I especially thought doctors knew everything and when someone was sick they always knew instantly what was wrong with the person. But I have since learned that isn't so. I know when I go to the doctor for a problem I may be having, she doesn't always know what medicine to give me and she looks it up in a book. The first time she did this, a couple years ago, I realized she doesn't know everything after all. I think I have had other doctors look things up in a book before, but at least they did it in another room so I didn't see, and didn't know. So I don't just accept everything I'm told by authority figures anymore, I question a lot of things now.

Fighting authority and questioning authority are two different things. 'Authority' can be as severe and as undeniable as a huge stone mountain blocking your path. And every body knows what it takes to move mountains... either a whole army of strong fightin' men with heavy duty artillary - as in bull dozers and other weapons of mass destruction... and a WHOLE LOTTA time. Or, you can question authority, which if the appropriate questions are asked will grant you 'safe journey' through the mountain as though it had vaporized from the spot. It has taken me a lifetime to discover this. So my answer to your question is; I highly recommend questioning authority over accepting things at face value.

There are some people who needs to value the word authority. In some point, they should abuse their power for personal gain. The manner of taking the plan or project to uplift the welfare of their own fellowmen.