[pct-l] Trail Maintenance and Mechanised Transport

[Nathan Dreon]

Breaking a rule for the sake of breaking a rule is not a piece of the culture I am most familiar with.  I doubt it is a healthy part of any viable culture.   It is practiced by the young and others with a similar mindset, to show that they are independent from the rule makers.  More mature members of society will only break a rule when there is some perceived benefit and an acceptable expected cost for the benefit derived.  The Civil Rights movement comes to mind, as does speeding, though I can't speak to the maturity of the speeders.

I don't think we have ever all had the same vision.  We rely on people respecting the democratic process and the rules that come from it even when they don't like the restrictions.  Civil disobedience is sometimes necessary but without a general agreement to follow the rules, government of the people by the people for the people will perish from the Earth.

If you think of obeying the rules as your way of showing respect for the democratic process you may feel better about them.

Nathan

In response to:
"I hate rules and regs not just because they are there and I must obey, I
hate them because our culture also believes rules are ment to be broken. A
don't compels/tempts us to do that which we would not do if it wasn't a
law, reg or rule. Seems to me that truth should set us free from the
bondage of selfishness to selflessness. To keep the PCT peaceful,
contiguous and terrestrial we must all have the same vision."