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"Utopia of Rules - our culture thinks that if we just had the right set of rules and everyone fallowed them then everything would work well." I hate to be pedan
by SapporoChris 5y ago
"Utopia of Rules - our culture thinks that if we just had the right set of rules and everyone fallowed them then everything would work well."
I hate to be pedantic, but your typo fallowed is literally the opposite of your intended followed.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/fallow https://www.wordnik.com/words/fallow
adjective Characterized by inactivity.
However, you have got my interest. What is the flaw in the reasoning?
- justinclift 5y ago> What is the flaw in the reasoning? Because the world is a very wide and varied place, with far more range of human situations than a set of rules is able to adequately deal with. Probably ever.
- ufmace 5y agoMore so, any system of rules that was anywhere near complete enough to deal with every situation ever would be so huge and complex that no human could ever read and understand it all, and even searching it properly would be impossible. Which will certainly lead to parts of the rule system contradicting each other and actual cases following one or the other or something else entirely depending on what the person applying it to the case was able to find. And if some individual's ability to find things or not decides what happens, then we're right back where we started, at a rather arbitrary system vulnerable to corruption. In which case, why did we even bother making this huge incomprehensible set of rules? See for example the US Tax Code.