What is power? What happens when we allow it to corrupt what is morally right? Power is having control over something or someone else. Once we let it corrupt us we stop doing what is best as a leader and start doing what is selfish. Individuals as a whole have been abusing power for ages. Beginning with slavery and carrying on into today’s world. What happens when we just stand by and take it? Those in power should not have the right to treat those beneath them like they are nothing, because doing nothing in the end will always get the same result. Slaves were mistreated because of the color of their skin, women mistreated because of their gender, supervisors and teachers abusing power simply because they can. Those with authority will continue what they are doing because they know they can get away with it. The abuse of power is a dangerous thing it can corrupt even the most innocent of people and in the end having it means nothing without those who respect us.
Douglass, Frederick in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick …show more content…
Not everyone can be as strong as Douglass or as brave as I was, however if you witness what is going on and say nothing you are aiding those who do wrong. Those who abuse power are often blindsided by their own selfish ambitions. They abuse their power because they are aware that no one is going to stop them and those they are being abusive are too scared to come forward for fear of losing their lives, or jobs. We must live with the choices we make, but that is exactly what they are choices and the only one who can change us is ourselves. No one can deny they have witnessed a misuse of power at one time or another. The question however is what did they do about it? The answer is nothing from slavery in the days of Douglass to the issues of today with the government or a job we all have choices.
We must realize we have to live with those choices and we can either let them define us or change and not conform to
Douglass, Frederick in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick …show more content…
Not everyone can be as strong as Douglass or as brave as I was, however if you witness what is going on and say nothing you are aiding those who do wrong. Those who abuse power are often blindsided by their own selfish ambitions. They abuse their power because they are aware that no one is going to stop them and those they are being abusive are too scared to come forward for fear of losing their lives, or jobs. We must live with the choices we make, but that is exactly what they are choices and the only one who can change us is ourselves. No one can deny they have witnessed a misuse of power at one time or another. The question however is what did they do about it? The answer is nothing from slavery in the days of Douglass to the issues of today with the government or a job we all have choices.
We must realize we have to live with those choices and we can either let them define us or change and not conform to