LogFAQs > #948002715

"if there's a rule, then follow the rule don't question it" is an ineffective strategy that humanity has seen fail time and time again. Even if its a good rule, people are going to break it, and where does that leave them? Do we sweep those who broke the rules and had better success than those who didn't under the rug? Do we simply label these rule breakers as others/monsters because it didn't work out for them? We have to have a multifaceted approach to problematic behavior because so many people do it, and if we drive the people who do bad things away, you'll get almost a full half of the country think they're not welcome in a space where people are supposed to improve themselves.

I realize it's very hamfisted to call your thought Orwellian by nature, but Animal Farm is required reading in most schools for a reason. You can't fix society with platitudes, and usually any attempt at doing so is not a failure on the platitude's part, it's a failure on a network of people who know how to disobey the spirit of the law but not the letter. It's tougher and it takes longer, but you have to rechallenge social dogmas over and over until the day you die. Challenging ideas isn't a sign of disrespect or not believing in the ideas. It's the farmer shaking the fence to make sure it won't fall over. It's Frank Lloyd Wright throwing sand on his building to defend his architecture.

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wird