2013-01-03, 03:16 AM
Retalion Wrote:None taken. It still irks me at times, because she sometimes expects me to live up to her expectations, and they are well...unreasonable at times.
What I'm saying is that these rules won't make him a better person. When rules make people better people, it's out of fear; rules don't teach people not to do things...it teaches people how to get around the system and not get caught. All those parents forbidding their children to date in high school...Do these kids actually not date? Sure, some don't, but many simply choose to date behind their parents' back. Plagerism gets you expelled. Does that prevent people from doing it? Nope, they just try to become more sneaky. People choose not to date because they think to themselves "you know, they might actually have a point...I'm NOT ready!", and people choose not to cheat because "dangit, I'm better than that. I don't need to cheat to get my grades! I study hard, I won't have to cheat!"
That's why I'm sometimes thankful that I hardly get gifts. The ones I've received from my online friends have been nothing but sincere which is why I'm all too happy to accept it and return my own.
In turn, these rules are good IF they're guidelines but given that it's a contract I'd bet that there's quite a bit of needed adherence to it so it may well backfire. One should hope that the kid has been taught on at least a few of these points before he got his iPhone though or else it'll backfire completely.