tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post3366588835613051097..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Come on you New Puritans, lighten up and let people live a little?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-40841775568688382822012-07-16T20:38:26.166+01:002012-07-16T20:38:26.166+01:00Posted for NiteOwl who has phone problems!
The Pr...Posted for NiteOwl who has phone problems!<br /><br />The Problem is something called "legalism" it was once part of religious law but now its part of secular law too.<br /><br />Its the idea that you shape human behaviour through rules, laws, regulation and such.<br /><br />Thats not what the law is for, its to tell you where the boundaries are and state the punishments for crossing them.<br /><br />Thus the twerps who killed the lights in this case were trying to shape the behaviour of people at future concerts. Instead of letting things go, writing off a warning or maybe slapping on a token fine.<br /><br />Labour are also a great example of this trend. They blame everything on the regulation "the moral code was not followed, not us guv" they make no distinction between governance of rules and rules. The rules are the end in themselves, the moral absolute.<br /><br />This is not a left/right thing totally, its a symptom of the orange grove theory of history.<br /><br />We got rich and we got stupid. Evolution and mother natures way of keeping us in check.<br /><br />http://vicepilot.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/obamas-first-99-days.html<br /><br />Hope all that makes sense?Simon Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586896340482296341noreply@blogger.com