Discipline.
Just recently I saw a film where the main character had built her life around writing. She had used her own family as material to publicly make known her ideas of rules that she thought were necessary to raise a successful family and prepare her own children for the life ahead of them. Unfortunately her husband was carrying on a secret affair and once this became public knowledge it destroyed her successful home life family image. This reminded me of a real life event where a doctor of psychology had published a very successful book on bringing up children and later a disastrous personal event of his own saw his adult grandson committing suicide. Some of the psychologist's suggestions were challenged and disputed, amongst these were specific arguments over placing an infant on its front as it is claimed this could cause a great number of unnecessary deaths.
In my own life it is only in later years that I can see how if my parents had not enforced a certain amount of family discipline into routine so many disasters could have occurred. In contrast a neighbour's son had a family of two young children and the mother and father were constantly arguing over the right way to bring them up. The mother allowed her children to do whatever they liked and was prepared to dispute with anybody who thought otherwise on freedom for children to do as they pleased and unfortunately many of these debates were taken up especially with her husband. I am unable to say what happened to the children as one visit to their house was all I experienced. In that one visit I did note that the surroundings in the house had a unique creative modern art theme of paint and crayon plus what I guess was brown plasticine that had somehow hardened with streamers hanging down from it. I was invited to sit down although all the seats were occupied by ripped comics and books, there were also broken toys strewn around in a haphazard modern art display type of look. I declined an offer of a cup of tea as there was a strong pungent smell of urine in the room and I noticed a half used toilet roll that obviously had been dropped in the toilet and rescued to dry out laying amongst the toys. While I was there the little boy and girl decided they both wanted the same toy at once and in the struggle I looked up to see if either parent would intervene. There was a loud thump and a burst of tears as the brother had managed to swing round the toy and his sister who had been holding on to it into the wall, this seemed to loosened her grip on the object considerably and to make her displeasure evident she loudly complained about it. I decided it was at that time the appropriate juncture for me to leave. The next I heard about the neighbour's son I was told they were divorced and he had found himself another partner but I have to say I was a little surprised to learn he had become a reverend.
Rules or no rules? Would society be happier or safer if laws on drugs, alcohol and the minimum age of consent were all scrapped. If there are no rules are you free to do whatever you like? Does the age in which we live mean that rules should be altered or reviewed? Do you have to live by example and if you explain something as a mistake should all your principles be ignored?
When the concept of rules no longer being applied to society is mentioned many people may think of historical examples of this. Cults can be frightening as they are potentially corrosive and under the guise of giving greater freedom and knowledge impose their own type of control by promising enlightenment. There have been some tragic incidents of mass suicide, in cult organisations, by a large number of followers which included children. Sometimes there is a point of conflict from outside the cult and mass suicide is chosen to preserve the claimed integrity.
Are rules a means of protecting freedom for all? Is the alternative anarchy and debauchery? In some individual instances rules seem to outweigh the good with trauma. There is a philosophy if each individual does right in all things then collectively society will benefit. This maybe the logic that links many examples and instances but for me I think each case has to be judged on its own merit.
In my own life it is only in later years that I can see how if my parents had not enforced a certain amount of family discipline into routine so many disasters could have occurred. In contrast a neighbour's son had a family of two young children and the mother and father were constantly arguing over the right way to bring them up. The mother allowed her children to do whatever they liked and was prepared to dispute with anybody who thought otherwise on freedom for children to do as they pleased and unfortunately many of these debates were taken up especially with her husband. I am unable to say what happened to the children as one visit to their house was all I experienced. In that one visit I did note that the surroundings in the house had a unique creative modern art theme of paint and crayon plus what I guess was brown plasticine that had somehow hardened with streamers hanging down from it. I was invited to sit down although all the seats were occupied by ripped comics and books, there were also broken toys strewn around in a haphazard modern art display type of look. I declined an offer of a cup of tea as there was a strong pungent smell of urine in the room and I noticed a half used toilet roll that obviously had been dropped in the toilet and rescued to dry out laying amongst the toys. While I was there the little boy and girl decided they both wanted the same toy at once and in the struggle I looked up to see if either parent would intervene. There was a loud thump and a burst of tears as the brother had managed to swing round the toy and his sister who had been holding on to it into the wall, this seemed to loosened her grip on the object considerably and to make her displeasure evident she loudly complained about it. I decided it was at that time the appropriate juncture for me to leave. The next I heard about the neighbour's son I was told they were divorced and he had found himself another partner but I have to say I was a little surprised to learn he had become a reverend.
Rules or no rules? Would society be happier or safer if laws on drugs, alcohol and the minimum age of consent were all scrapped. If there are no rules are you free to do whatever you like? Does the age in which we live mean that rules should be altered or reviewed? Do you have to live by example and if you explain something as a mistake should all your principles be ignored?
When the concept of rules no longer being applied to society is mentioned many people may think of historical examples of this. Cults can be frightening as they are potentially corrosive and under the guise of giving greater freedom and knowledge impose their own type of control by promising enlightenment. There have been some tragic incidents of mass suicide, in cult organisations, by a large number of followers which included children. Sometimes there is a point of conflict from outside the cult and mass suicide is chosen to preserve the claimed integrity.
Are rules a means of protecting freedom for all? Is the alternative anarchy and debauchery? In some individual instances rules seem to outweigh the good with trauma. There is a philosophy if each individual does right in all things then collectively society will benefit. This maybe the logic that links many examples and instances but for me I think each case has to be judged on its own merit.
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