Why does everything have to be controlled?

Question

It seems there are rules for everything. Why?

Answer 1

Since the dawn of time,you always had one person or group of people who wanted to remain in control of the tribe or nation. It was felt that with a loss of control there would be chaos,and some other nation would usurp power.

Answer 2

Why are there rules?

1) Because they encourage predictability, which makes things more efficient. If people behave according to rules, things work more efficiently. This is why, for example, businesses force you to use their forms to get things done. It's also why businesses tend to flourish only when the rule of law is followed, because businesses are more likely to invest in an area when they know what they can and can't do under the law, and what others can and can't do to them.

2) In some contexts, there has to be an arbitrary rule so that everyone's activities are coordinated or chaos results. For example, the rules say you have drive on the right side of the road, not because this is better than the left, but rather because we can't have both simultaneously, and that's the choice that was made. In many other countries they drive on the left for the same reason.

3) In other contexts, if things are left uncontrolled, some people will act in ways that endanger themselves or others.

4) Resources aren't unlimited, and rules provide an orderly, if not fair, way to distribute them. (e.g, you must pay to get food, or to ride a train).

Even an anarchic society will have rules, because without them you can't have society. Psychological research shows that people have an inborn sense of justice and fairness, and so it's no surprise that every society has rules. The better question is what the rules should be, rather than should we have them.

Answer 3

There are rules for everything because governments, and the powers to be believe that without order there will be chaos. With chaos, they believe governments will be overthrown and humanity will fail. A prime example of this fear would be the civil rights movements and anti-war movements of the sixties. They changed a generation with their chaos and their breaking of rules and regulations. Maybe the rules exist to be broken, and transformed for a better society, yet now days the governments have so much power they cannot be broken, and everybody is simply a slave to society as the government wants it. There are simply rules to produce control, and that control is then used to twist society the way the government sees best.

Answer 4

Think of the big picture. If our planet didn't have a fixed orbit around the sun, there would be no life. If it didn't tilt on its axis, the sun would never rise and set. Everything depends on rules and balance, even if you can't see it. And even chaos theory has guidelines and "rules", if you want to call it that. If you're asking why our society has laws, taxes, statutes and things like that, well, it's always been that way. How would you like it to be? I bet you can't think of a system that doesn't involve any rules or regulations.

Answer 5

Once a professor in American Consumerism told me that supply and demand is controlled because there isn't enough of everything for everybody. That being the case, even with a lot of money, some people could not "buy" everything. I have since changed my mind about supply and demand economics because in today's world with the enormous greed we have, money puts one in the right place at the right time for which to buy nearly anything. You speak of controls, well, money can speak louder than anything else. Cash is better than credit because if one buys something and their credit card is refused, they can't buy the product or service they are wanting. In other words, money controls everything.

Answer 6

Anarchy sounds good in theory but, like Communism, doesn't work out so well in practice. Some general guidelines are neccesary. I do agree that a lot of times people go overboard with rules and that trying exercise a lot of control over others is unhealthy.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is to gain complete over oneself, and thereby ones life to gain absolute freedom. Until such a time as the populace reaches this veriatble nirvana of maturity, laws ensure that all live by a set discipline and mores. As a child is governed by its mother until it reaches the age when it can fly out into the world upon the wings of its own imagination within the bounds of social statutes, in the same way, society must be governed until it can govern itself.

Answer 8

Because the poeple in power have a sick addiction to control. And the morons who keep voting them into office seem to truly think that it is the state's job to take care of us and protect us from ourselves from cradle to grave.

Want change? Vote for Ron Paul!

Answer 9

to prevent humans minds from EXPODING! have you ever tried to do somehting that didnt involve rules? You end up making them in your head, maybe morals or boredom. And we like to controll. We like to think we are in controll of our lives and that we have a choice, a decision!

Answer 10

It is the nature of civilized society to have rules to govern our behavior, and to keep people from taking unfair advantage of others.
The alternative is anarchy.