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> Smart people understand that there is a reason that pointless / absurd rules are there. Understanding that there is a reason (which is often that it was made
by wolfgke 10y ago
> Smart people understand that there is a reason that pointless / absurd rules are there.
Understanding that there is a reason (which is often that it was made as a political compromise in a distant past) does not imply that one tolerates/accepts it. As I hinted understanding the reason can also mean that one gets a much deeper hate for the rules.
- mr_luc 10y agoAnd that can be the case just as much even if there is no simple win-win solution to the problem. One can hate the rules -- for their injustice, ineffectiveness, abstract immorality, etc -- and at the same time realize that the rules are an inevitable result of the complex system we inhabit. As a student of history and humanity and a free moral agent, you can recognize the reality we live in, acknowledge that it contains many no-win situations, and still hate the status quo even if you don't have a solution for how to fix it, because it deserves to be hated.