Challenging the Guidelines
PrevNode LinkNextAnyway, as humans, we are capable of challenging certain dogmata or taboos in certain cases. This includes: Peano's axioms of arithmetics:
For thousands of years, we have been plagued by mathematicians insisting that two plus two equals four. Who elected them? I, Stevie-O, am promoting an entirely new system, where two plus two equals FIVE ["2 + 2 = 5"]. Eventually, it will be extended to provide other stuff these power-hungry madmen kept hidden away for themselves, such as division by zero, cold fusion, the ability to solve the halting problem, and the secret to attracting hot chicks.
or Aristotlian Logic:
Is qmail open source? Yes, and no."
(That was written in a book I read before qmail's change of licensing.)
I believe in God, and I don't believe in God.
(As I overheard one local young school girl say to her friend a few weeks ago.)
And we can certainly challenge:
Real Person Fiction ( RPF ): never do that!
What about Last Action Hero, Chuck Norris factoids, and xkcd: "Venting"?
No one will read screenplays which are not written in the Hollywood-blessed format
( See above )
The redditesque "no self-promotion" (which was not enforced by Slashdot before reddit was conceived, and still is not enforced by Slashdot or by many subreddits).