ahhh help! give me your opinion on this!!!!!!! please?

[hyp44]

Please give me your opinions!
Do you think our leaders (ex. political, parents, coaches, etc.) should influence us? Why do you think they should influence us?
CAN YOU PLEASE. . . Give me more than a yes or no to this please be very detailed about this and give me some good points I need as many opinions as possible! Please!

[sara3]

(homework)

[paraffin]

What's in this for me, then?

[jno]

How on earth could you get through life without anyone influencing us? Everyone we meet or hear about or read about influences us all the time, starting with our parents. (Imagine a child growing up alone without parents or other human contact - how do you imagine it would turn out?)

[gobbledegeek]

Ahhh, someone can't do their homework. Why are you asking for our opinions when it's suppose to you YOUR opinion/

[jason.p]

I think that's a bit harsh gobbledegee, you could say hyp44 is using initiative to gather opinions, and where better than from a forum like this with such a broad spread of members.
Back to the question:
Any society whether primitive, developed, civilised or unrefined, need to develope and maintain cohesive behaviour to remain stable. This has usually been in the form of a religious establishment which set the standards, and acted as role models (maybe not so much now).
On a day to day basis, we're then influenced by parents and peers etc ideally acting within these guidelines.
It's interesting looking at gang culture which is a society within a society, but still need strict codes of behaviour, perhaps even more so than the wider society.
To maintain stability we as individuals have to be influenced by others around us, and to some degree conform. This does not mean mindless acceptance of everything, but as individuals we cannot just do entirely our own thing with disregard to others, so we have to be influenced by those around us for ourselves and our society to survive.

[jno]

gobbledegeek, are you saying hyp44 should refuse to be influenced by the opinions of others?

[phizzy]

sorry but i would hate to influence you !

[phizzy]

spot on steve , provided of course the heeded advice was good advice ?

[seadogg]

It may be that the kind of answers you need depend on how advanced your course it . Has your tutor used the term "Social Control"? Is it a "subject" like Sociology or do you just want an interesting essay for English.

[tamborine]

So you dont behave like a feral pack.

Civilisation has taken years to evolve and you have to fit in with your community to survive.

[jason.p]

Did any of this help Hyp44? Some sort of feedback would be nice.

[Whoever]

Only if you look at them and respect them for who they are and what they do and you know that the advice they offer is a result of hard earned experience. . We are all given an education these days and once we start experiencing the real world for ourselves our thinking processes should kick in and give us the ability to start reasoning these issues out for ourselves.
As for allowing our political leaders to influence us - you must be joking !! You mean the people who fiddled their expenses at the cost of the taxpayer and who used just about every trick in the book to line their own pockets ? Come on !!