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> As for Rule Three, it is for the non-Calvinists who reject Rule Two, "who are not paralyzed by guilt and who are too uneducated to express their resentment le
by dpark 10y ago
> As for Rule Three, it is for the non-Calvinists who reject Rule Two, "who are not paralyzed by guilt and who are too uneducated to express their resentment legally." For them "there is only one possible form of expression: to break the law, by engaging in criminal activities such as murder, armed robbery, violent assault, rape and the smoking of marijuana in pipes or home-made cigarettes." Followers of Rule Three end up in prison.
This feels really out of touch. Aside from the stilted language ("home-made cigarettes" in 1999, really?), lumping people who use marijuana with rapists and murderers is absurd. Might as well lump in people who jaywalk.
- doubleunplussed 10y agoI think that might be the point.
- macawfish 10y agoNot everyone who jaywalks is following the third law, but jaywalking might be a good indication that you are! From what I can tell, the idea of those three laws is to emphasize the first two. Anyone who isn't falling for the mentality of the first two risks, by their 'out of the box' tendencies, being tossed in the clink with the rapists and murderers. In ultra-capitalist America, they are saying, money's power is protected at the cost of some human freedoms, such as the freedom to smoke homemade cigarettes that didn't feed into the industry. If you don't make the sacrifices required by the first two laws, you might find yourself sacrificed. It's safest to conform.