Why can't the unwritten rules of social play be written?

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deep-techno
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23 Mar 2008, 5:55 pm

beentheredonethat wrote:
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That's why the unwritten rules can't be written.

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Very logically and neatly put.


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23 Mar 2008, 6:02 pm

MikeH106 wrote:
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By definition.
If they were written, then they wouldn't be unwritten would they.



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23 Mar 2008, 6:36 pm

The rules exist so we can trip over them. If someone likes you, your imperfections shouldn't matter and things should flow naturally. If someone doesn't like you, they will find fault no matter what. If you're short, you'll be too short. If you're careful, you're a prude. If you're too smart, you're a nerd. The bottom line is that if a person doesn't like you, then there's nothing you can do about it. Move on.



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25 Mar 2008, 8:07 am

The whole point of them is for NT's to use them to identify "people like us".

i.e. they only want the people in their group who understand the rules (intuitively). It is like a kind of test.

Writing them down would thus defeat their primary purpose.

Anyway, I don't want to be part of their group. It would mean pretending to be something I am not, and it would be far to stressful to maintain.