by Cd Colburn

Created on: January 23, 2012

In defence of a rule breaker:

As an abnormal psychology degree holder, I might agree with this article if I were to take it for face value and if I took the blue pill in order to go along with what was expected of me. However, many free thinkers have studied and written about social expectations and obscure truths including Pythagoras and Galileo. As a free thinker myself and individualist I have to add my two cents. 

In North America we are a varied and genetically diverse group of people separated by a couple or three generations from our origins who might be a people who dance around tall stones during an equinox, drink cows blood in order to stay hydrated in a sub African desert or eat human flesh for spiritual dominance purposes. In the handful of years that humans have roamed the planet we are still connected to conditions which formed our genetics, ancestors, and behaviours. And we are not far from what we might think today as immoral and deviant.

As a people in North America and other Western cultures we bring to the table a cornucopia of realities and skills. While someone arguing with themselves in the subways in NY might be of damaged psychology, someone who argues with Freud that his ground-breaking models might not be accurate and challenge a Victorian view of gender reality, might be considered to be learned.

Forward to the 19th century and congress's argument based on the Constitution, that marriage is between a man and a woman. Many gay rights constituents on the other hand will argue against and if things turn out the way they hope in a hundred years from now, we might view today's norms and rules as archaic and backwards - somewhat how we now see the need for a women's suffrage in the 1800s or civil rights revolution of the 1960s. 

Rules, while they might keep animals in a zoo from developing dietary and health problems based on our mental development, won't help us to continue to mature and evolve. Meanwhile anyone who disagrees or counters what is considered normal or break the rules is considered to have a disorder such as Oppositional Defiant disorder and so on. Grounds for society to not take those outside the "rules" seriously if not contradictory and a danger to a societies "advancement."

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