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Thread #23174   Message #255703
Posted By: GUEST,Marymac, sans cookie
11-Jul-00 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: A suggestion? Time for Membership Only?
Subject: RE: A suggestion? Time for Membership Only?
Well, I'm with Joerg. I consider myself an anarchist, defined the way Utah Phillips says it: "an anarchist is someone who doesn't need a police officer to tell them what to do or not do." I don't believe more rules will help solve us these problems.

Once, at a former worksite of mine, a woman on the night shift was picked up by her male partner, who then battered her because he suspected her of cheating on him at work. My boss immediately made a rule that no non-employees could enter the premises. I doubt that such a rule would have stopped the paranoid jerk mentioned above, and it had a generally negative impact on everyone concerned. Rules don't make us decent people-decency does!

Marymac