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Originally Posted by redpoint5
We are clearly incapable of being our own moral compass since we tend to agree that anarchy is to be avoided. .
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I don't believe this is true. My guess would be that a large majority of people will handily arrive at a sustainable sort of behavior on their own, through exposure to family, community and the experiences most of us either glimpse or live - like resource shortages, loss, the effect of another's greed, the effect of carelessness, etc.. - basically if you have an imagination at all and if you care at all about someone other than yourself, you can imagine what a dead-end most "bad", or wasteful, or unsustainable behaviors are and act in a way that (according to your imagination) seems sustainable.
I don't subscribe to the practice of anarchy, as probably do many other people not subscribe to it, because I recognize that while most of us are reasonable and possess the above learned morals - those who cannot or will not learn those morals can cause significant harm (to us, to the stability of the future we imagine for ourselves, to those about whom we care) if granted the freedom to exercise their selfish or careless acts. Because we recognize this threat, we concede some liberty for the sake of stability. This is a concession made without need for a church or a "moral leader" - both of which seem always to be corrupt anyway.
I'm no longer clear on what any of this has to do with manual transmissions, except that I just don't see them saving the world. Unless operating the clutch lowers sperm counts or something.