A respectable and virtuous trait, in my eyes. It is important to teach your children morals, and it is also important to teach them to question authority. Their moral code should always override authority for them to be decent people.

My mother was an amazing woman when raising me. I was a nightmare child, but when I fucked up, she always endeavoured to make me know why I fucked up and why it was so wrong. She drummed morals into me. She made me know right from wrong.

She also taught me to question authority. She taught me to put my moral code above authority. She is a very smart woman, and I'm not the sort of person who irrationally idolises my mother. She's a person with faults, like anyone else. She may spend more money on catalogue sites than she should, haha. But in raising me I think she did a solid job.

We should be raised to question authority, but respect it when the logic is sound. Rules should be respected, when they are sound and justified. Authority should be respected when sound and justified. But petty rules and management is fair game and we can fuck with that as much as we like.

I've always had oppositional problems when it comes to rules, but I manage it by breaking really small rules that nobody cares about, so I'm happy.