What’s the opposite of ‘rule’? The noun not the verb.
What would an unrule, a factor that promotes unruly behavior, be?
Aside, the archaic “ruly” (‘amenable to discipline or order’) is a great word and should be brought back.
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Hmm, as in “hulk, smash”? 🤔
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Permission?
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‘License’ seems close. Licentious behavior is positive-defined unruly behavior. Moral licensing effects rely less on explicit permission from authority figures and more on observing a first example of the behavior with no consequences, esp from a supposed moral superior.
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chaos? license? disorder? trap? stumbling block?
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Unrules sit between totalitarian principle (“anything not forbidden is compulsory”) and liberal principle (“everything that’s not forbidden is allowed”)
Apparently the German version is “everything that’s not allowed is forbidden”
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Ideally you want the building block of the spirit of “fuck around and find out”
Not ‘trial and error’ or ‘experiment’, those imply their own disciplined rules.
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