10/28 make up post

My essay this week is about how, to lessen individuality you also lessen the destructive nature of humanity. It talks about how, if everyone has their own choice it could create problems in a society; that if you were to have your will over the will of another it might hurt someone. That also means that if everyone followed the will of a single person, that there would be less contention, less danger, and less confusion. The essay is about how in, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Anthem by Ayn Rand, they have a crazy utopian society. In The Giver they kill people who make costly mistakes, and the worst part is that not a single citizen has a clue about it. In Anthem there is no such thing as “I”, just we and if you mention ego you might just get burned at the stake. In Anthem you might even be whipping, that’s right lashings over and over again. But in reality their citizen’s never rebel, they are well behaved, literally whipped. So my question is, if you were a citizen that just found out that your community killed people, or that the leaders were all corrupt, would you even rebel or would the fear of death stop you?