When I feel like I have an excuse for why I should get special treatment, even though I wouldn’t say this excuse was reasonable if someone else tried to use it
This seems a bit tautological… since roughly half the population is below average in virtue, and will engage in all sorts of bad behavior if they think they can get away with it. Partly because we define good and bad relative to the population average.
And for most of the rest, strong enough incentives can induce them to behave the same, it happens even on this very forum, so when combined that’s most people already.
Yes, but for most people, in practice a “bad application” of rules means “the rules being applied to me.”[1]
That’s the primary sense in which people don’t like rules.
When I feel like I have an excuse for why I should get special treatment, even though I wouldn’t say this excuse was reasonable if someone else tried to use it
This seems a bit tautological… since roughly half the population is below average in virtue, and will engage in all sorts of bad behavior if they think they can get away with it. Partly because we define good and bad relative to the population average.
And for most of the rest, strong enough incentives can induce them to behave the same, it happens even on this very forum, so when combined that’s most people already.