First thing to consider is what it means to have it written down. Once written, someone needs to be in charge of them/to protect them/to enforce them. We'll call them layers/government/judges/law enforcement. There are thousands of laws that are written down in your country/state/city. Do you know all of them by heart? Of course not. But it doesn't matter if you didn't know if something was agaisnt the law, you are subject to it.
Consider also that a tribe lives as one big family, so just as our own families have rules that are unwritten by our parents that you have to follow, that they recieved from their upbrigning that gives your family it's identity, a tribe works the same way. You didn't have to know them as rules, you have lived the …show more content…
If a law is broken, you as an idividual can do nothing but ask the state (city/state/country/whatever) to handle it. You can do nothing about it or you might break some other law trying. Think of families again. Though some parents like to say "deal with it yourself", we can all agree the best thing are parents that say "let's deal with this together."
As families, unwritten rules are unwritten because they are known and followed because that's what makes you family X. Call that your family's culture, its customs.
If one family doesn't care for thank yous and pleases, but another does, one family cannot impose that on the other. It is not part of one set of customs. It what defines them and there's nothing wrong with that.
A tribe has no rules agaisnt murder because they know murder will happen. What they have are customs that handle things when they happen to make sure the tribe as a whole can move forward. We have laws against murder, and if someone murders your loved one, you have to deal alone while the state handle it. And if the state doesn't punish the murderer enough to your liking, or even no punishment, you can't do anything about it, and surely you'll feel cheated and have a hard time moving on from the injustice (law term again). As a tribe deal with it as a family, and its ways are what defines you as said culture, rest assured that the outcome to a murder will satisfy you
Consider also that a tribe lives as one big family, so just as our own families have rules that are unwritten by our parents that you have to follow, that they recieved from their upbrigning that gives your family it's identity, a tribe works the same way. You didn't have to know them as rules, you have lived the …show more content…
If a law is broken, you as an idividual can do nothing but ask the state (city/state/country/whatever) to handle it. You can do nothing about it or you might break some other law trying. Think of families again. Though some parents like to say "deal with it yourself", we can all agree the best thing are parents that say "let's deal with this together."
As families, unwritten rules are unwritten because they are known and followed because that's what makes you family X. Call that your family's culture, its customs.
If one family doesn't care for thank yous and pleases, but another does, one family cannot impose that on the other. It is not part of one set of customs. It what defines them and there's nothing wrong with that.
A tribe has no rules agaisnt murder because they know murder will happen. What they have are customs that handle things when they happen to make sure the tribe as a whole can move forward. We have laws against murder, and if someone murders your loved one, you have to deal alone while the state handle it. And if the state doesn't punish the murderer enough to your liking, or even no punishment, you can't do anything about it, and surely you'll feel cheated and have a hard time moving on from the injustice (law term again). As a tribe deal with it as a family, and its ways are what defines you as said culture, rest assured that the outcome to a murder will satisfy you