This forum is to discuss basic criticisms of formal rules and to promote the legitimacy of subjective values. Rules, laws, etc. are overcoming judgment and responsibility. The popular idea that "good" has it's own existence independent of and separate from any actual being is demeaning to both. Imposing, rather than persuading, may be efficient, but it does not work and is antithetic to democratic notions. We are not "jarheads", whose lids might be unscrewed and content inserted. We do not teach people how to become better at exercising judgment. We cannot await a general uprising to effect departure from archaic but established rules. Nor can we forever point to them as their own justification. We cannot "share" that which we do not have within ourselves.
Subjective values are more like the ability to appreciate or to dream than a scientific formula.
