Observing the rules and discussing what the rules should be
OP - October 03, 2012, 09:40 PM
I am reading Richard Sennett Together, where he discusses child development and that children first learn the rules and then as they get older negotiate the rules. I remember that I quite clearly moved from religiously following the rules of Monopoly to adapting them slightly. I still find that if playing monopoly I might do something that is a family tradition, that causes horror to strangers!
And this ability to negotiate is a key skill in learning to co-operate with others
This might be an obvious observation, but might religious teachings actually affect the members of a society's ability to co-operate with each other?
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
A.A. Milne,
"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"