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I personally have experienced the constraint of dependance in my life. I have relied on many people, but I relied/rely on my parents more than anybody else. I have relied on them for moral guidance, and also physically depend on them. Also, in a much more abstract sense, I depend on society as a whole.

Most moral values are not instinctual, and must be learned from older, mature people. As with most people, these teachers for me were my parents. As a young child, I relied on them for moral guidance, as they explained to me why dishonesty, stealing, and hurting others was wrong. As I grew older, I began to learn more complex morals, such as responsibility, by example. I learned from their behavior: the way they cared for my younger sisters, and the way they were always respectful to others.

In addition to dependence on parents or parental figures for guidance, there are almost always more physical, material dependances. For example, I don't have a car, so I depend on my parents for means of convenient transportation. I don't have a significant source of income (job), so I rely on them to buy food and other neccesities for me. I don't have my own house, so I depend on them to let me live in theirs. I depend on my parents for all these resources, and if these resources were to become unavailable, it would present a major inconvenience.

Just like one person can depend on another, one can depend on a larger entity. A very open and general example is my dependence on society as a whole. Everybody who is a part of society has contributed to it and taken from it. I depend on society in virtually every aspect of my life. In society, everybody contributes, and takes, and shares. Everyone depends on several other people to make their contributions. I depend on the thoughts and findings of others before me to learn, to have an education. I depend on people I've never met or even heard of to do their part in society, wether it is farming the grain that goes into my breakfast cereal or delivering that cereal box to the grocery store or ringing it up at the counter.