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Have you questioned any rules today?

by illuminatrix in Six Words Questions on Feb 05, 2013 | add favorite | T-shirt

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maryjane31 says,

Yes. Just found out from a relative that Obama will not allow us to deduct the taxes on our new car. We bought it in 2012. We have not verified this yet, but we are pissed. We were looking forward to claiming it. It is a nice chunk of change! Obama please stop your crazy ideas. You are hurting people.

marymc says,

I questioned the rule that says I'm not allowed to smack people who were trying to cheat me out of several hundred dollars.

illuminatrix says,

Good. Questioning rules means you're doing your job. Everyone who thinks on any and every rule, law, or statute as a divine commandment, a moral absolute -- and thinks that the social pressure exerted by questioning the necessity of said rules is a malevolent or disruptive one -- is holding out wrists and ankles and pleading for manacles. Questioning exercises critical thinking and helps to shape a more accurate picture of reality while simultaneously re-inserting back into the social matrix the actual wishes, desires, knowledge, experience and modes of logic of real individuals. All part of progress and refinement. Rebellion is as much an important human quality as curiosity or even indeed empathy.

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