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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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‘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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hmmm. So the contrast between legalizing and decriminalizing (~license)? One gives moral imprimatur, the other simply agrees to look the other way? Ha-- just looked up "imprimatur". Here's the definition:
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Suggestion? Everything not forbidden is suggested? Encouragement? Everything not forbidden is encouraged? Urge/urged is still in between, I think, but leans toward compulsory, compared to these others.