Individuality vs. Conformity the battle of how society should work What are individuality and conformity? Individuality is a quality or trait of a person or thing that distinguishes or separates them from others. Conformity is a social idea involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. But I believe that The potential risks of individuality do outweigh the benefits that come from conformity. Individuality outweighs conformity because if you are all different from each other then different people can contribute different great ideas to benefit the world. When everyone is unique and different then you can think outside the box with nothing to hold you back. Creating a better life and more happiness is because of people …show more content…
We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world” (63). Beatty means that it is fireman's responsibility to keep books out of people's hands so they don't learn about alternative ways of political views and go against the way society works. And that he is also meaning that in the old days there was competition and that drained down society and the government wanted to eliminate that. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury states that “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn”(104). This means that if you lack what makes you compete with other people, which is knowledge, then you will never learn but society would avoid a possible “Dark age era” caused by competition. In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt states that "If I tried to get away with it," said George, "then other people get away with it and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?"(2). “I’d hate it (2). This shows