People are always going back and forth between choosing what benefits them and what will benefit the society. However people choose to manage a situation, it will always end up affecting that person and the people around them. Being put in a situation where you have to choose between yourself and other people is a hard one to be put int. Your first thought is to think of yourself, but then you always end up thinking of your morals and the people that your decision with affect. If you choose the decision that affects you it will also affect the society and if you choose the decision that affects the society it will also affect you. The outcome of choosing either one can either be completely negative or completely positive. Individuals are always equally as important as society because without the individuals, there is no society. …show more content…
In the book there are divided fractions that people live in that represent their personalities. In some cases a person has multiple personalities and has to choose between multiple fractions. Those people are called divergent and the government wants to eliminate them from the world. When a girl named Tris tries to go against the government’s control when she finds out she’s divergent and by doing so it affects the society as a whole. By trying to up rise the government Tris and her actions ruin the way the government had the fractions set up and an all-out war breaks out. Because Tris’s actions the society as a whole is turned into an army against all the people who are divergent and that don’t agree with the way the government runs things. One person’s actions affected the society. To some people the individual’s needs are more important but they never thought of how the individual’s needs are only taken affect if the society is there to put them into effect. The individual also wouldn’t have any needs if there wasn’t a society for them to base their needs off of. No society is perfect so the individuals will always have needs to make it better or for them to benefit themselves. Individual’s needs are equal to society because individuals make up society; the individuals have to participate in the society for there to actually be one and whatever the individuals do affect the society. To have a well-functioning society you need individuals because without them then you would have nothing. Individuals need the society just as much as the society needs the