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Laws and rules..

chinu

chinu
are made for man, or man is made for laws and rules ? Do you find any difference ? what do you think ? Doesn't it sounds like.. that today's man is made for laws and rules ? :)

The system of following any laws and rules beganed with the starting of human life on this earth, as keep on growing day by day. As one takes out new tricks in order to prove him/herself correct according to law, New laws are created thereafter. Thus.. as by the growing of human brian day by day, laws and rules are also growing day by day.

Q: When the making of laws and rules will get end ?
 

Gjallarhorn

N'yog-Sothep
Human minds run on simplified models of the universe, therefore many parts of that universe are reduced to heuristics.

The making of laws and rules will only end when they lack opposition.
 

apophenia

Well-Known Member
Neither. Man makes laws and rules. They are not made for man, nor is man made for them. Those two ideas are both the same idea - a creator god. So that is not a choice, it is a setup.
 

Reverend Richard

New Thought Minister
are made for man, or man is made for laws and rules ? Do you find any difference ? what do you think ? Doesn't it sounds like.. that today's man is made for laws and rules ? :)

The system of following any laws and rules beganed with the starting of human life on this earth, as keep on growing day by day. As one takes out new tricks in order to prove him/herself correct according to law, New laws are created thereafter. Thus.. as by the growing of human brian day by day, laws and rules are also growing day by day.

Q: When the making of laws and rules will get end ?

Starting with your comment above (in red), I actually think rules started before that. However, it all depends how you define a rule (or a law).

Before man evolved (oops, can I use that term here?), our 'rules' were biologically programmed into our (and other animals) brain as instinct. Those instincts dictated our behavior and our interaction with other animals in order to ensure our survival, i.e., eat or be eaten, kill or be killed, and finally mate with females in order to propagate our species. Ultimately, when man's intelligence evolved sufficiently, our society became complex enough that it was necessary to codify our rules to maintain order, at least among our own tribe. Naturally, our tribe's rules trumped other tribes rules in terms of fairness and protecting our own.

Skipping to present day, in our global society, our ability to make rules and laws has not caught up with how quickly we are forced to deal with cultures ourside of our own. We are almost back to using our instincts (killed or be killed) in order for our own 'tribe' (i.e. culture) to survive and maintain its identity.

In the coming centuries, as humans move toward space travel, and perhaps encounter alien life forms whose cultures are perhaps more (or less) advanced than our own, the need for rules and laws will only grow in complexity.

We can only hope than any technologically advanced civilizations we encounter will be more forgiving than our own species has been with each other.
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Laws and rules I agree are made by man, and the one who hits the hardest and has the better stick wins.
 

A-ManESL

Well-Known Member
are made for man, or man is made for laws and rules ? Do you find any difference ? what do you think ? Doesn't it sounds like.. that today's man is made for laws and rules ? :)

The system of following any laws and rules beganed with the starting of human life on this earth, as keep on growing day by day. As one takes out new tricks in order to prove him/herself correct according to law, New laws are created thereafter. Thus.. as by the growing of human brian day by day, laws and rules are also growing day by day.

Q: When the making of laws and rules will get end ?

Laws and rules are made for man and the spirit behind them is that goodness and harmony should prevail between men. The problem today is that most people lose focus on this Reality that harmony and goodness has to exist. In theory at some level we all believe that it is fundamental, but in practice, in everyday actions and behavior our focus is lost. Hence in a (flawed) attempt to find a focus, people take the laws and rules as the basis on which to govern their behaviors. IMO, this may lead to chaotic, confusing or dangerous situations if the spirit behind the laws come into conflict with the letter of the law.

The only way to overcome this is to focus on the Reality or the spirit of these laws so that it becomes self-evident that these laws are tools to an end and the end may be achieved in other ways as well.
 

idav

Being
Premium Member
Laws and rules are for people who take the freedom and happiness of others. Rules are there for guidance and well being. Wolves may not care about the rules but we still gotta keep them out of the hen house.
 
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