What are society's "rules"?

Answer 1

It is a relative term. What one society values another society abhors. One example would be Germany in the 1940s: What their society accepted and valued is polar to what today's citizens of the United State's value. It's called moral relativism and while many don't like this, the truth of the matter is "Might makes Right". Whoever wins the war or has the power decides what history will be recorded and what is deemed right and wrong. Unless of course there is a God and he is sovereign.

Answer 2

In a highly individualistic society with little respect for parental authority and few social bonds, the sense of community is threatened. So the question is really, "Where have the basic rules gone?" And this started with the Baby Boomer generation. Their reaction to the fifties led us down this path.

My generation factors into it as well. I don't want to go back to the fifties, it's not a lament for the "Moral Majority" that never existed. The eighties were brought on by the decadence of two decades. The direction of society needs to be addressed without going back to the past and without going down this destructive path.

Answer 3

The Ten Commandments are the rules upon which all our laws are made . What changes is which rules society chooses to enforce at a particular time and with however much conviction.

Answer 4

Society's rules about what??? Try to make sense when you ask a question.

Answer 5

For the most part, like ' Society ' itself, perverse, invalid, fickle, and a perversion of the Higher Law which it picks and chooses from what it will use to make itself look ' Legitimate. '

As we can all see, cause and effect is also an immutable rule and isn't subverted. You always pay the price for what you do.

Answer 6

It depends on where you live. In the 50's there were rules for everything. Then the 'daisied VW's came along and the flower children' and all the stereotypical behaviors went out the window.

Now...it's live and let live. Good manners are always in style tho.

Answer 7

there are many written and unwritten.

the written ones are expressed in our codified laws. from there we have different rules applied for consequenses for breaking the rules (based on who you are)

the un-written narrow down to an individuals group that they are a part of.

Answer 8

We do not have rules and whoever told you that we do must have been out of their mind and they need to get help mentally and physically. E-mail me and I will show you what i mean!

Answer 9

Know Thyself

Answer 10

there r no rules