Who cares about this king?!?!

When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the/ name of king? To cabin, silence! Trouble us not.
During the storm in the beginning of the Tempest, tensions are rising high when things are getting out of hand. Boatswain and Gonzalo get into an argument. Boatswain is the sailor trying to stear and conduct the men on the boat to safety, but Gonzalo interrupts and distracts him during this process. Boatswain tells Gonzalo and the other noble to get back under the deck so that he can conduct the ship properly. But Gonzalo gets angry and accuses boatswain of wanting to live more than the king should and that he deserves to die. He tells him to calm down and that when boatswain says “when the sea is” meaning that he will calm down when the sea does. When he says “What cares these roarers of the ser?” he means what do these deadly waves care about the life of this king and his noblemen. It’s ironic how later we find out that the waves were actually manipulated a spirit so that the King of Naples would fall upon the shore of this island.
In the face of death, boatswain thought mainly of himself rather than the king. This is a complete transition from the period of chivalry where men were expected to honor God first then their king even when under the pressure of the lives being at risk. These lines are a foreshadowing of what will happen later in the book. When all the men from the ship hit the island, people are plotting with and against each other.
Do people really respect authority? Will authority be respected later in the book? Do the people in authority really deserve to hold their power?