*cough* *cough*.....*sneeze* and *wheeze* ..... I guess I have had a fair run of about a year not being sick...and now it's time...
I've also been recently noticing a trend in society which seems to indicate to me, something of a sickness in our society....(Ah...today is a hard day to write in a focussed way, and I just noticed that what I'm about to do is offer criticism of a system within which I live, and offer no solution...)
Okay, back to it - specifically, (and this may be a naive observation to most) is that societal laws aside from preventing/punishing its members for doing harm to each other, also remarkably prevent us from being decent to each other. An example of this, when a person has been wrongly dismissed at a company, and even prosecuted based on false grounds, does not (cannot) receive an apology from their company once this person's name has been cleared. To apologise, is to admit wrongdoing - and consequently (most importantly), to become 'liable'. The word 'sorry' is now a legal liability! Wow.
So, okay, I admit, this isn't insightful, but my small observation here is that,
although laws are reactive to societal behaviour and evolution, they also shape/confine us in the short term. Is it possible, that children will no longer be taught to 'say sorry' when you've done something wrong? ... because well frankly your parents are gonna now sue my parents?
I can imagine that in my example above, there was/is a discord between what they felt was right, and what they were legally advised to do, within the person who wrongfully dismissed the given person. The fact that this feeling exists is encouraging, but they fact that it remains a feeling is not so much. I wonder how long this feeling will linger?...
(PS. [Legal disclaimer...hehehehe....] The example I used wasn't something that happened to me, or that I actually made up from scratch, it came to my attention attending a recent even on the Leveson enquiry - which is another fascinating subject, full of 'symptoms of sickness'.... :))
I've also been recently noticing a trend in society which seems to indicate to me, something of a sickness in our society....(Ah...today is a hard day to write in a focussed way, and I just noticed that what I'm about to do is offer criticism of a system within which I live, and offer no solution...)
Okay, back to it - specifically, (and this may be a naive observation to most) is that societal laws aside from preventing/punishing its members for doing harm to each other, also remarkably prevent us from being decent to each other. An example of this, when a person has been wrongly dismissed at a company, and even prosecuted based on false grounds, does not (cannot) receive an apology from their company once this person's name has been cleared. To apologise, is to admit wrongdoing - and consequently (most importantly), to become 'liable'. The word 'sorry' is now a legal liability! Wow.
So, okay, I admit, this isn't insightful, but my small observation here is that,
although laws are reactive to societal behaviour and evolution, they also shape/confine us in the short term. Is it possible, that children will no longer be taught to 'say sorry' when you've done something wrong? ... because well frankly your parents are gonna now sue my parents?
I can imagine that in my example above, there was/is a discord between what they felt was right, and what they were legally advised to do, within the person who wrongfully dismissed the given person. The fact that this feeling exists is encouraging, but they fact that it remains a feeling is not so much. I wonder how long this feeling will linger?...
(PS. [Legal disclaimer...hehehehe....] The example I used wasn't something that happened to me, or that I actually made up from scratch, it came to my attention attending a recent even on the Leveson enquiry - which is another fascinating subject, full of 'symptoms of sickness'.... :))
