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                          %INFORMAL RULE PUNISHMENT 810515

     The  use  of  formal authority and power  to  enforce
informal  rules  via  punishment---is an  abuse  of formal
authority,  and so a violation of formal law.   This is so
even  when  there  is  an  ostensible  formal  rule  which
authorizes the use of formal authority to enforce informal
rules.    It  is a violation of formal rules to  create  a
formal  rule which authorizes the use of formal  authority
and power to enforce unwritten informal rules.  This is so
even  if  after the violation of  the  unwritten  informal
rules  there  is unanimous agreement among  accusers  that
their informal unwritten rule has been violated.  Informal
social  pressures are all that should be used to encourage
conformity  to  informal rules.   In such  instances  wise
people  will reveal just how alienative are those informal
means  of  enforcing informal rules.   The  generation  of
alienation   is  the  essence  of  evil,   and  often  the
enforcement of informal rules is evil.

     Often  informal  and formal enforcement  of  informal
rules  is motivated by fear of non-conformal  behavior  on
the  part  of  creative  people who  are  not  trapped  in
traditions  and collusions.   The supporters of traditions
and  collusions  in such instances  are  not  sufficiently
mature to appreciate the creativity of those who transcend
traditions and collusions and who  point  the  way to more
meaningful living.  Because of their fear people often try
to  prevent the transcendence of their favorite traditions
and collusions,  and so  they insist on the enforcement by
informal and formal authority of their unwritten  informal
rules against what they perceive as threatening  behavior.
Wise  people  will insist upon the formal articulation  of
rules  as  the absolute prerequisite to the use of  formal
authority to enforce such rules.   Such an insistence will
help free people from fear, and from the fear of fear.

                                                                                                                               
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