Cykros on Nostr: In fairness the prompt on the second page is at the top, so they're not supposed to ...

In fairness the prompt on the second page is at the top, so they're not supposed to be questions, just situations.

And yea, authority, in any valid sense, is born of knowledge. A doctor is an authority on medicine. A rancher is an authority on cattle. A teacher is an authority,one might hope, on their subject.

You listen to them because it's how you learn, or take necessary direction based on knowledge. But they're never beyond reproach or question, save when time is of the essence (as in a rescue or battle situation, where those questions and second guesses hopefully happened before or get saved for when the delay doesn't get people killed).

And authority is always voluntarily followed. Else it isn't authority, but coercion.