Date: March 18th, 2009

Rules you don’t enforce are worse than useless

18 March, 2009 (15:03) | Essential posts, Policy, Primer Posts, Regulation, Theory | No comments

Just as fuzzy boundaries are bad boundaries, rules that are not enforced are worse than useless.  For they give some people the illusion of order, while others know the reality of disorder.
 
Which led me, over the years, to expound this simple principle:
 
Rules you don’t enforce are worse than useless
 

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