Tuesday, August 19, 2014

"Perfect" Rules Are a Distracting Pipe Dream

Humans seem to constantly seek an ultimate set of never-changing rules against which all decisions can and should be made. Such a list will never exist, however, because we can't know the future and therefore can't come up with rules for every possible situation, letting alone the problem of getting agreement on the validity of such a list. Yet, we still chase this fantasy as if it's real, even reaching back into the distant past to mangle ancient texts in hopes of finding this artificial treasure we've imagined to exist. This flaw is perhaps the most damaging one that humans posses because it stops us from doing the work of taking responsibility for ourselves within a world and a universe that never stops changing.

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