Moral Anarchy: Pecking order

Pecking order:

1: the basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank; broadly: a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals

2: a social hierarchy

3: the way in which people or things in a group or organization are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status