Bill Cypher on Nostr: A rule put there only to show you aren't good enough to follow the rules feels a bit ...
A rule put there only to show you aren't good enough to follow the rules feels a bit icky to me.
Consider a different context. I would consider a rule that was only there to prove to my kids that they are failures a bad rule. How much psychological harm would that do to the kids? Seems morally repulsive to do that to your children to me.
To go back to Christianity, I love bacon but don't eat pork seems like a bad rule to achieve that goal any way. Far easier to follow than saying "no lust" to someone who has to live through puberty. That is a surefire fail but it still serves a use to society to attempt to curtail lust.
Consider a different context. I would consider a rule that was only there to prove to my kids that they are failures a bad rule. How much psychological harm would that do to the kids? Seems morally repulsive to do that to your children to me.
To go back to Christianity, I love bacon but don't eat pork seems like a bad rule to achieve that goal any way. Far easier to follow than saying "no lust" to someone who has to live through puberty. That is a surefire fail but it still serves a use to society to attempt to curtail lust.