> This is a matter of self respect and good stewardship of the resources that we all need.
It's self-respect to blindly do what others tell you? Remember, if there's any potential reason you'd disobey a rule you aren't really a rule-follower, you're just as willing to be the final arbiter of right and wrong as an anarchist is.
Following rules is the easy answer for sure and I guess if you see yourself as someone willing to go with the flow you have an easier time.
> You can win plenty by playing by the rules.
Of course, that's what rules are about. Can't have a game without them.
But if "it" was the right thing to do, why does society have to reward you for doing it? It's likely you're being fed a line, and a bit of the profits, so you'll go along with whatever abuse was so egregious it had to be codified as a rule just to get people to accept it.
I've never read a bug-free piece of code over a hundred lines long and the law isn't as well written as most of the code I've seen. And even if correct as envisioned, the validity of rules in general relies on the failed assumption that we knew more in the past than we do now.
Codified rules, like "representative" democracy, are harmful to a free society.
It's self-respect to blindly do what others tell you? Remember, if there's any potential reason you'd disobey a rule you aren't really a rule-follower, you're just as willing to be the final arbiter of right and wrong as an anarchist is.
Following rules is the easy answer for sure and I guess if you see yourself as someone willing to go with the flow you have an easier time.
> You can win plenty by playing by the rules.
Of course, that's what rules are about. Can't have a game without them.
But if "it" was the right thing to do, why does society have to reward you for doing it? It's likely you're being fed a line, and a bit of the profits, so you'll go along with whatever abuse was so egregious it had to be codified as a rule just to get people to accept it.
I've never read a bug-free piece of code over a hundred lines long and the law isn't as well written as most of the code I've seen. And even if correct as envisioned, the validity of rules in general relies on the failed assumption that we knew more in the past than we do now.
Codified rules, like "representative" democracy, are harmful to a free society.