Rules

[matrixmann]

In a time where it doesn't matter if you work off your ass, where it doesn't matter if you invest a lot of time and a lot of effort into a project, where it doesn't matter if you do your job properly, where it's the same if you work hard or do nothing, where you're kept on a leash and never make it to climb the latter of career, where your unfriendly, sneaky and inpredictable collegue rather is promoted than you - where the big criminals are set free and the bread-and-butter-robber gets arrested for the whole of his life, where great tax evasion is rather softly punished than small one or murder,
where thugs are released on probation while persons who didn't pay their tickets inevitably get arrested, where big associations can do whatever they want, unhindered by law, and where politics and journalists can force war and be rewarded with prizes and high positions,
which incentive do you have to follow rules anyway?

Comments

[quirkytizzy.livejournal.com]

Because the poor man always gets the short end of the stick, and I'm poor, and I don't want to go to jail, because that'll fuck with the small amount of autonomy I am afforded.

Also, because my cats need someone to take care of them and if I'm put away, they won't have that.

Also, I'm a believer in social order. Anarchy does nothing but punish the small people even worse than capitalism does. If you are to live in a society and reap it's benefits, no matter how small, then you are obligated to perform civic duties. Part of which includes following rules and laws.

[matrixmann]

The argument of having no trouble seems the most reasonable.

The thing about order, as mankind knows it, is: It's created mostly by humans. Words like "duty" and "justice" - the ideals behind only exist in human order (and in the one of other creatures which rise to a certain point of standard of social and intellectual intelligence). But they don't exist in nature.
So, when rules only have a meaning if you live in society, nature doesn't care, and rules can be bend by time, place and individuals carrying them out, so which universal value do they have at all? (Take the hint of the text above, which tries to state rules don't work (anymore) as they were intended.)

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

The only thing that comes to mind is OCD.

[matrixmann]

I find that OCD means "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder".
Why that?

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

A feeling that you ought to do something anyway despite its obvious unimportance.