Submission + - In The Search For Status Quo (corrupt.org)
Anti Globalism writes: "One of the most difficult challenges for a leader is to know how many rules you should enforce, in order to maintain order and discipline in a group of people. There is no absolute guideline how to do this right and the results will vary among cultures and individuals. Parents face the same dilemma every day: if you let your child do whatever it feels like doing, it will end up being driven over by a car or kidnapped by some local lunatic. If you restrict it too much, that will eventually back lash when it grows older and realizes that you destroyed its childhood.
Human nature is very simple: in any given environment where's there's a group of individuals living together, certain norms and principles will be established over time, that seem to benefit the group as a whole. This may of course also include taboos and not all rules are necessarily stated in public; in fact, if you think about the social norms in our society today, they consist of quiet agreements that all people assume you agree with and follow: don't walk naked to work, stand in line to the concert, avoid wearing the Nazi uniform at school etc.
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Human nature is very simple: in any given environment where's there's a group of individuals living together, certain norms and principles will be established over time, that seem to benefit the group as a whole. This may of course also include taboos and not all rules are necessarily stated in public; in fact, if you think about the social norms in our society today, they consist of quiet agreements that all people assume you agree with and follow: don't walk naked to work, stand in line to the concert, avoid wearing the Nazi uniform at school etc.
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