Prioity in Society or Family First?

Characters in the play each have their own set of beliefs and moral values. When Joe Keller decided to ship off the cracked plane parts to save his family business, he put his family before the society and country in which he lived in. This single act shaped his beliefs and moral values for the rest of his life. He willingly sacrificed his honesty and dignity to cover up his previous dishonorable act. His choices did not only affect him however. His wife, Kate, was forced to follow her husband's lead and put her family and husband before the society. She knows the truth, but does nothing about it and instead, interprets her reality as she wishes it was, even though it was not actually that way. Their son, Larry, was devestated when he realized that his father was behind the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He ultimately took his own life and that act identified where he stood ethically. In his mind, the society as a whole came before the prosperity of a single family, even if it was his own. Similarly, Chris, his younger brother and the Keller's second son, valued honesty and responsibility to the society and to youself above all. When he found out that his father had lied to everyone and blamed another human for his actions, Chris was devestated and ran away. The fact that he wouldn't forgive his father showed his devition to his own beliefs and his complete rejection of beliefs like his father's.
I believe that everyone owes something to their society and to fellow human beings. Everything should remain fair and no one should sabotage others for personal advancement. Everyone should be honest and responsible for themselves and never put others in danger. However, when society is going in the wrong direction and someone has a feeling that it is wrong, that person must stand up and say something. Kate intentionally lied to herself and others to cover up her husband but i believe that she should have released herself from the burden of hiding the truth and made her husband pay for his actions. With that said, I believe that for the majority of the time, people must put the society before themselves. For the relatively few times when society has been wrong and will be wrong in the future, people may put their personal beliefs ahead of the society's.