0815 - THTs -Rules

The title for yesterday’s recording was ‘Ruler’. And in that recording I used that word in the way that a ruler is a tool to be used for measuring things. - Today, I want to talk about a similar word. Undoubtedly a related word. Not ‘ruler’ but ‘rules’. - Why do we humans make rules? And who in the hell is actually making them anyways? It seems like just about nobody likes them. If a rule gets made, you know for sure people are going to find some way or another to not abide by it. They’ll lie or cheat, they’ll claim ignorance or declare a total and fundamental loss of personal freedom. - But you know what, when people try oh so hard to break the rules and get away with it, you know what we do. We get other people to enforce the rules. Because, is it really a rule if it isn’t being enforced? But it kinda seems like nobody really wants to be the cops either. - So what’s the point? Not enough people seem to follow the rules and at the other end nobody really wants to enforce them. Does making rules do us any good? We’re all adults here, we can trust each other to do the right thing, right?