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I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer. Of course, there is a risk when choosing to ignore rules that you are ignori

I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer. Of course, there is a risk when choosing to ignore rules that you are ignoring them because they you are an inconvenience to you but are generally good for society. Government incented/enforced vaccination would be a good example of such a reasonable though possibly annoying rule. I totally concede that point, and hence, individuals need to be especially mindful about their own self serving biases when choosing to disobey rules. But on the other hand, imagine if rules that effected tens of millions of people all had scientific studies about their tradeoffs, their risks, and their efficiency. How much less bullshit would we have to deal with? I think lots of big innovation is done by rule breakers. It's exactly what pg talks about in point 4 about wanting founders who are naughty. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

DanBC 14y ago
> I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer. You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance. "The Collector Collector" (Tibor Fischer) is a fun read; relevant here because he describes quite nicely the sense of entitlement that some criminals feel.
- swombat 14y ago
  > You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance. I'm sure he would. As it happens, I am not typically a noise creator - but you are, today, downvoting my post and then replying to it within a minute of me posting it. I've kindly returned the favour.
  - DanBC 14y ago
    I did not down the post you replied to. I did downvote the your post that first replied to. I up voted the post where you said that you're not rude to airline staff. EDIT: > replying to it within a minute of me posting Timestamps disagree with you.
    - swombat 14y ago
      s/a minute/a few minutes/

DanBC 14y ago

> I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer. You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance. "The Collector Collector" (Tibor Fischer) is a fun read; relevant here because he describes quite nicely the sense of entitlement that some criminals feel.

swombat 14y ago
> You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance. I'm sure he would. As it happens, I am not typically a noise creator - but you are, today, downvoting my post and then replying to it within a minute of me posting it. I've kindly returned the favour.
- DanBC 14y ago
  I did not down the post you replied to. I did downvote the your post that first replied to. I up voted the post where you said that you're not rude to airline staff. EDIT: > replying to it within a minute of me posting Timestamps disagree with you.
  - swombat 14y ago
    s/a minute/a few minutes/