Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point

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pdpi ◴[04 Apr 25 00:01 UTC] No.43576908[source]▶

Fundamentally, rules almost always come with compromises — for the sake of making rules understandable by humans, they have to be relatively simple. Simple rules for complex situations will always forbid some amount of good behaviour, and allow some bad behaviour. Many of society's parasites live in the space of "allowable bad behaviour", but there is a lot of value to knowing how to exploit the "forbidden good behaviour" space.

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1. Enginerrrd ◴[04 Apr 25 12:49 UTC] No.43581507[source]▶

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The worst of all worlds is when a blind application of the rules results in bad behavior.

This situation seems to come up frequently, and I'm very often appalled at how readily otherwise normal people will "follow the rules" even when it's clearly and objectively bad, and there may even be existing pathways to seek exceptions.

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2. harrall ◴[04 Apr 25 15:31 UTC] No.43583885[source]▶

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Some types of people are “rule followers” are can’t fathom breaking any rules.

There are also “rule breakers” who can’t fathom being told what to do.

Both types of people are insufferable.

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3. moate ◴[04 Apr 25 16:08 UTC] No.43584459[source]▶

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puts Killing in the Name on at full blast

4. akshaybhalotia ◴[04 Apr 25 21:33 UTC] No.43587822[source]▶

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