If the rules were gone tomorrow

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FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 20, 2009 4:23 PM

If the "Rules" were gone tomorrow.

Would you really change how YOU live, all that much ?
Run wild in the streets ?
Harm your fellow man ?

Or would you, simply go about your life as you do, with a few minor adjustments ?

So think about it, good and hard, and see if you can even name three things you would change about your own personal life - and if it takes you more than a few seconds, ponder maybe why that is.

Lemme see here...

1. I would adopt several unwanted children, and try to give them a better life.

2. Offer to replace the officially educated by practically incompetent (and much despised) guidance counselor at the local high school.

3. Yanno, offhand, I can't think of a third...

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

RUE

Monday, July 20, 2009 4:26 PM

"If the "Rules" were gone tomorrow."

The global economy would collapse, money would be worthless, you couldn't get gas, or medical care or ... anything.

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Silence is consent.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 20, 2009 4:48 PM

I disagree, very strongly, in fact.

What, you think every drop of petrol would evaporate overnight, every doctor would just vanish from the earth ?

You need to let go of your fear, doll, before it consumes you.

-F

PIZMOBEACH

Monday, July 20, 2009 5:09 PM

I'm afraid we need rules to keep more people from entertaining their lesser impulses. Predators in particular, but there's a long list of "bad intentions" that more "average" folk might visit if they had no social or legal barriers to be concerned with. Rodney King L.A. and Katrina New Orleans come to mind.

RUE

Monday, July 20, 2009 5:55 PM

HERO

Monday, July 20, 2009 5:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Would you really change how YOU live, all that much ?
Run wild in the streets ?
Harm your fellow man ?

I'd make new rules, find some like minded folks, and we'd impose them.

Rule #1. No PN on RWED.
Rule #2. Add a meal between lunch and dinner (around 2:30).
Rule #3. No musical Ice Cream trucks.
Rule #4. Only persons owning apple trees may vote.
Rule #5. No speeding.
Rule #6. No murder without a license.
Rule #7. Limit number of sitcoms and reality shows on the networks...mandate scifi hours/week.
Rule #8. Proper BBQ preparation class required for graduation (with a standardized taste test).
Rule #9. Guns.
Rule #10. Restrict apple tree ownership.

The rest will just fall into place naturally.

Edited to add: Rule 11, no dogs eating dogs...no eating dogs by anybody. Licensed cat eating...ok.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

WULFENSTAR

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:29 PM

No rules?

Wouldnt that be sweet?

BYTEMITE

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:35 PM

I'd try to barter for a gun (just in case), and then not know how to use it. But at least I'd LOOK intimidating! That's 9/10ths of the battle, anyway, most people aren't actually going to persist mugging or raping you if you're flashing iron in their face.

I already have water stored for an emergency... The question is how am I gonna get food. Supermarkets will be a no-go because of the likely looting, and that's going to draw desperate activities LIKE the killing and the raping.

Probably I'd try to find some people who are growing food, then offer to help them grow and protect said food. Assuming they don't kill/mug/rape me first.

Until I meet people who would accept me, though, I'd anticipate a lot of wilderness wandering. Which at least I'm good at. I can probably survive a good while out there because I know what plants are edible and I can out-hike a lot of people, and I have the equipment I'd need to survive a long period of time.

ECGORDON

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:50 PM

I might start smoking pot again. Other than that it would be business as usual.

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I'm afraid we need rules to keep more people from entertaining their lesser impulses. Predators in particular, but there's a long list of "bad intentions" that more "average" folk might visit if they had no social or legal barriers to be concerned with.

I have to mostly agree with this. I've found in working so much with the public that a lot of people are decent and honest folk. I more than likely couldn't stop them if they wanted to rob the place, but fortunately that's usually been a non-issue. However, there are still people who will attempt to be dishonest, right to my face, and there are still more people whose level of dishonesty increases in proportion to their likelihood of being caught for it. If people can fill up their gas tanks and drive away without paying, never having looked anyone there in the eye, a lot of people will, a whole lot more than will actually walk into a place with a gun and hold it up. Libraries have alarm systems, and the books there are free, at least for a time. So why is that? Because there are a lot of people who would walk out without documenting which books they're taking. Not all people, but enough of them. There's a lot of honest people in the world, but there are quite a few who are only honest because they fear repercussion. And still more who won't be stopped by that fear, and do terrible things until they are caught and stopped. Now maybe, if the rules were gone tomorrow, those people would be stopped anyway. Maybe enough of the basically good people would band together to go after someone who was doing harm. But that would require them to ignore any fear they had of being harmed themselves, and that also wouldn't mean the rules were gone, just maybe a bit different.

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