The world is full of opinions of everything in it. As soon as I expose my appearance there are opinions being made in one’s head without them even being said, but do I care? Should I care, what others think of me? Does it really matter, what others think of me? The sources I have read on this topic were Ayn Rand’s Anthem , Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Prometheus from Greek Mythology , Leo from a critical thinking video, and experience from a Socratic Seminar. The protagonists seemed to not care... Here’s why I shouldn’t care what others think of me just as these characters did not worry as well.
First and foremost , in Anthem the main character Equality 7-2521 didn’t feel concerned of what others thought of him. He did not care of what the councils’ reactions would be towards him before he acted a certain way or did anything. As can…show more content… Many people supported slavery throughout the U.S territories in the West. Although, he did make it clear in his opposition to expanding slavery. Lincoln did not want to be similar to those many people. Lincoln made a decision without a worry of what the people thought of him as their president. He did not care about how their opinions would differ after his act on slavery. Instead, he used his authority to do the right thing. As shown when Lincoln said , “ Now therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of the actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do … etc.” He is saying all that he is and because of it , he orders all slaves free and that the rebels have 100 days to get cleaned up before he checks them. If he would’ve worshiped what others thought of him , we’d probably still have slaves till this very
