Do you agree with this? That it is impossible for any group to live up to their own book of rules.?

Question

When they are forced to, they end up stabbing themselves in the foot. you can not live up to every rule in the book all the time, eventualy you will fail. do you agree?

Answer 1

Yes. Ideological purity is a recipe for disaster.

Answer 2

Well that depends. In a culture with a lot of social heirarchy probably so. The reason is that those societies tend to be larger and develop some kind of codified legal system. The problem with these systems is that generally bad rules get made. They get made to benefit the heirarchy as much as to sort out common disagreements. They also get made to cover extremely rare, but unfortunate events, which only makes things more complicated.

Where societies are not so stratified they rely on taboo instead of formal rule making. Generally taboos cover only specific actions and duties. So most people can live with a small set of rules. That's what I think anyway.

Answer 3

I do agree. The Bible from Genesis 3 on has a lot to say on that theme.

Answer 4

"Impossible" is tough to achieve in this case. Imagine a society whose "book of rules" contains one rule: "We shall seek to better ourselves". Does any society not seek to better itself?

Or if that's not uncontroversial enough, let the single rule be: "If someone wrote this rule, then someone exists."

In other words, societies whose rules are true of societies in general, or societies whose rules are logical truths (LOL), are counter-examples to your claim.

Answer 5

I agree like it is written. "Only one life, it will soon be past, Only what is done for Christ will last."

Answer 6

AINT NOBODY PERFECT.NO RULZZZZZZZZZZZZZ