Human beings have multiple, sometimes competing instincts and in different proportions in different individuals. While one of them seems to include voluntarily

Human beings have multiple, sometimes competing instincts and in different proportions in different individuals. While one of them seems to include voluntarily giving up responsibility of some aspects of your life to sufficiently respected others, another you can observe in many places is an instinct towards self-sufficiency and a reluctance to accept people telling you what to do. Without the first, many large scale achievements of the human race would have been more difficult or perhaps impossible. Without the second we would have lost a valuable check on the power of the leaders, and a much reduced propensity to explore and experiment.