Would you rather have no rules or strict rules?

Question

Would you rather live in a country where everything is open source and for everybody, and have no rules or regualations (or safety), or would you rather live in a country where trade, commerce and law are strictly controlled, and have no freedom? It's either one or the other, and explain your choice.

Answer 1

I once came upon an experiment in Massachusetts. There is a hairpin turn near the border which never had a speed limit sign, just a sign that warned of the turn. A group of college students put up a sign that proclaimed that the speed limit was forty miles per hour. Needless to say, they could not get the sign back down fast enough and as a result, the roads people had to put up a speed limit sign. I learned a lot from that sign. Laws encourage people to test their limits. It becomes fascinating to break them, at first just a little and then progressively more so. Society is always healthier with a minimum of laws or no laws at all, but once a law is put into place, it requires that more laws be put there to reinforce the first. Therefore, I would rather have no rules, but recognize the fact that if we have any rules at all, they would need to be strict, comprehensive, and require stringent enforcement. - sigh -

Answer 2

I like strict rules only because I would have a place in society and know what I am supposed to do. Aimlessly wandering around not having a clue, no clear path nor any safety to me is just suicidal.

Answer 3

that's an impossible choice for me. once i try to choose the grass is immediately greener. anarchy or dictatorship?
i'd go with no rules. this way the weak and stupid would be weeded out and we would still have freedom to do anything. but of course it could lead to nasty violence but i can imagine some groups of peolpe coming together to live peacefully, which in turn may lead to some informal accepted rules and guidelines to sustain some order in whatever society there is.

Answer 4

I would rather live in the free country. People will informally begin to regulate, even if the regulation is not official. It's human nature to create structure of some sort.

Answer 5

How about inforcing the rules we have now

Answer 6

strict rule to give all of us direction

Answer 7

Would you rather drink poison or die of thirst?

Stupid question.

Answer 8

UM,OKAY..........