Its been a long time writing ,putting words into thoughts in a coherent manner.My considerable lack of writing practice have lead to long sentences,as my friend pointed out ,long sentences lead to difficult reading and comprehension.
I would like to continue this post correcting this flaw and present my ideas in short sentences.All the systems in the world have a structure,certain set of rules.Those that inhabit the system have to play by the rules in the system.This is same be it a sports field or an institution like family,society or politics.Some of these are explicit like laws and coded rules,others are accepted norms..Any deviation from the accepted norms is always frowned upon and the violator is always being forced or coerced to confirm to the norm.
My struggle seems to be to understand how much structure determines our actions.Whether our actions can have a freedom independent of structure,if so what are the consequences.Some of it are obvious,any violation of legal rules lands us in trouble.This allows us certain acceptable behaviour in a society.The acceptable behaviour can have a lot of individual freedom or more social order depending on how the rules are written.
Norms are still more difficult.The following of Norms in any case whether by peer pressure or social acceptance tends to create a structure which limits your actions.In cycling it was speculated that everybody was using drugs.So you had to use them if you had to win.You could not do so but it would almost certainly lead you not to win.The other option was to report on widespread drug use which would carry its own pitfalls.The strucure and the objective had lead most to take only one possible option,to cheat same as others.
I would like to continue this post correcting this flaw and present my ideas in short sentences.All the systems in the world have a structure,certain set of rules.Those that inhabit the system have to play by the rules in the system.This is same be it a sports field or an institution like family,society or politics.Some of these are explicit like laws and coded rules,others are accepted norms..Any deviation from the accepted norms is always frowned upon and the violator is always being forced or coerced to confirm to the norm.
My struggle seems to be to understand how much structure determines our actions.Whether our actions can have a freedom independent of structure,if so what are the consequences.Some of it are obvious,any violation of legal rules lands us in trouble.This allows us certain acceptable behaviour in a society.The acceptable behaviour can have a lot of individual freedom or more social order depending on how the rules are written.
Norms are still more difficult.The following of Norms in any case whether by peer pressure or social acceptance tends to create a structure which limits your actions.In cycling it was speculated that everybody was using drugs.So you had to use them if you had to win.You could not do so but it would almost certainly lead you not to win.The other option was to report on widespread drug use which would carry its own pitfalls.The strucure and the objective had lead most to take only one possible option,to cheat same as others.
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