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Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫

The "The rules have to be consistent or they're not the real rules" and "it doesn't mean 'i love obeying authority' or 'i love conforming'" lines hit me like a fucking truck though

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28 April at 20:57 | Open on tech.lgbt
Gravecat :blobcatuwu:

@ShadowJonathan just... a fuckin' thousand percent this. Clear instructions = GOOD, but like hell I'm gonna respect authority figures just because someone tells me I should.

28 April at 21:04 | Open on meow.social
olena

@ShadowJonathan basically, the rules are the instruction to make something the optimal way. We read the rules, and if we have no experience with the matter - we try to follow them(assuming that if they’re followed - they are efficient). If the result is satisfactory, we stick to the rules (first engineer’s law: if it works, don’t touch it), if it’s not or we see the inefficiency, contradictions etc - basically, everything that makes us think this is not optimal for everyone involved - we try to invent our own, more efficient ones

@ShadowJonathan basically, the rules are the instruction to make something the optimal way. We read the rules, and if we have no experience with the matter - we try to follow them(assuming that if they’re followed - they are efficient). If the result is satisfactory, we stick to the rules (first engineer’s law: if it works, don’t touch it), if it’s not or we see the inefficiency, contradictions etc - basically, everything that makes us think this is not optimal for everyone involved - we try to invent...

28 April at 21:16 | Open on mementomori.social
olena

@ShadowJonathan like, it’s the same with instruction manuals: if I haven’t assembled the thing before, I surely will read ALL the instructions available before I start, and gosh I love having clear ones. But after doing that by the manual once, I may contemplate the result, think about the process - and decide that next time I am doing that differently

28 April at 21:20 | Open on mementomori.social
Irenes (many)
Jaden Rubisco

@ShadowJonathan Oh hell yea, this is like the most relatable thing I've seen all week

28 April at 21:38 | Open on ohai.social
Cassian
DoomsdaysCW

@ShadowJonathan Something something, unjust laws, something something...

28 April at 22:29 | Open on kolektiva.social
DoomsdaysCW

@ShadowJonathan Here we go. Saint Thomas Aquinas: "An unjust law is no law at all." (ca 1200's)

28 April at 23:22 | Open on kolektiva.social
Wyatt H Knott

@ShadowJonathan What I'm hearing is "autists are natural anarchists."

28 April at 23:45 | Open on vermont.masto.host
Juliamon

@ShadowJonathan Autistic people don't want to *follow* rules, we just want to know they exist so we can analyze whether they are good or not. We don't want to take for granted that we're being told the truth, because we know nobody ever tells us the truth to our face. Oppression of autistic people is based in the 'rule' that we are an aberration that shouldn't exist, so why would we follow that rule? So too we eye the gender binary warily and with reasonable doubt.

29 April at 0:01 | Open on kind.social
Jargoggles

@ShadowJonathan
They've clearly never seen an autistic person run up against a rule that didn't make sense.

29 April at 0:03 | Open on kolektiva.social
Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ

@ShadowJonathan I like rules as systems of understanding, not edicts. Frickin heck.

29 April at 0:17 | Open on mstdn.social
patcanfield

@ShadowJonathan Every rule can be reasoned, unless it's a bad rule-pre 2024, most rules could be easily reasoned as being beneficial to society at large.OR, figure out your Perfect World, make the rules, and follow them. If Your rules don't match rules of 101 days ago-I'd be curious to hear them.

29 April at 1:25 | Open on mastodon.social
creatures :plural_heart:

@ShadowJonathan can't follow rules that make no sense to us. Gives us a logical reason or stop trying

29 April at 2:26 | Open on plush.city
Ivy [_gay] Mae :fire_trans:

@ShadowJonathan if the "rules" are wrong then they're just orders from the unqualified and bigoted/uninformed
good rules should lead to the optimal outcomes for all

29 April at 3:36 | Open on cutie.city
Soren

@ShadowJonathan this puts a concept into words, that I have missed for a while. Thank you for sharing!

29 April at 9:59 | Open on kolektiva.social
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