Essay On Moral Compass

I have reached a point in my adult life where I stopped believing everything people with perceived authority tell me. To be honest, I should have reached this point sooner but,, I have long been conditioned to bow to authority and accept the systems and labels forced on me. There is the part of me who wants to belong and follow everyone else’s idea of the blueprint of a woman in America. But there is another part of me that screams beneath the surface that asks “Why!?” This part of me urges me to think deeper about what I’m saying and what I am doing and why I am doing it. Whose plan am I following? Why is that how I should or should not behave? Is that who I want to be? Am I bowing to traditionalism? People seem to get uncomfortable when they can’t answer these questions with any other answer than “That’s how it’s always been done.” But I continue to ask why. It’s been difficult for me to question almost everything but,, it has really opened my eyes to the things that I have just accepted and didn’t take time to really think about. I have let others be my moral compass and as I sift through the social structures in my life, I find my compass tends to land in a different place.
A certain subject has been on my mind as of late, seeing as I am about to graduate college, and that is academic dishonesty. It has …show more content…
I say American schools because I cant really speak for other systems that I haven’t been a part of. Ever since we started holding children hostage at an early age and forced them to learn topics they had no say in, they have been discovering ways to best the system. With this new era of standardized testing and technology come new forms and descriptions of cheating. The Internet if full of hilarious and clever ideas for cheating. My personal favorite is printing out your own drink label for a bottle and putting your answers on the inside. It’s the 21st century version of writing the answers on your