What are Rules for?
I have the habit of starting philosophical debates with people. It just sort of happens. Sometimes I don't know I'm in the debate until it passes the point no return. I lost the debate. I was trying to argue that rules weren't necessary.
Debating on the fly is difficult when proposing radical ideas. In short, don't do it because it won't get you anywhere. You need well planned arguments. For that, continue reading.
Rules are a program. Your DNA is a set of rules that, when interpreted, produce a human being. From here on, the terms "rules", "program", "instructions", and "laws" are all referring to the same thing.
In the computer world, the ruleset, or computer program, is fed into a processor. Neat stuff appears on your computer screen. In nature, an organic cell is fed into the environment we call Earth. Neat stuff appears in the water, and eventually on the land and in the sky.
Groups of animals have rules as well. Birds soar through the sky and fish glide through the ocean as a single group, reacting as a whole.
Humans have developed incredibly complex set of rules to govern their behavior. The difference between the rules humans have made and the rules our school of fish has made is simple. The fish have rules that serve a purpose. Humans do not.
We don't think about the long-term effects of the rules we make. We make laws with short-sighted goals in mind.
03.11.2010. 08:48
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