The More Rules The Better?
July 28, 2013 11:17 PM   Subscribe

I once had a Russian language professor who said Russian was a language with many rules and few exceptions.

This, he said, made it inflexible and rigid with no potential for surprise either in the language or the culture. By contrast, he said English was a language with few rules and many exceptions. Likewise, he said because it was a mongrel language, it was very flexible and capable of innovating and changing quickly, and this was also reflected in its speakers; its people.

I don't know if he was right even if he was teaching the class. But I wonder if the same thing is true about rules as they apply to society? Do more rules lead to a strangling of freedom and a limited society, or do fewer rules lead to chaos and anarchy? Is a society better off with more rules or fewer rules to be best?
posted by CollectiveMind to Society & Culture

This post was deleted for the following reason: As written, this is pretty much just asking people their opinion on a super general question, which is chatfilter; please contact us if there is a more concrete problem you'd like to present. -- taz

 
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