There are a book of rules, plainly stated and written, in the game of golf. Society does not have rules, there is culture and perhaps standards. Society does not have a universal standard, it is regional. If you were in India and did some PDA action you would be criminally tried! People do things differently everywhere...and it's okay to do what you are going to do with your one self...but to judge other people by your own standards only means that you should be willing to be judged by other people's standards as well.
You make an assumption that only educated and refined people employ these universally accepted, acknowledged behaviors and those who do not are not so. This is a tricky basis for separation of two different broad catagories. First off, what makes someone "refined"? Their knowledge of fine win and cigars? Cars? Stock Market? Clothes? What makes someone educated? Also, what's with this "universally acknowledged" junk...show me the universally acknowledged poll? If what you mean is that those who follow all of these societal standards (and they mean that much to them) also agree that only those who follow such standards are then refined and education then it seems to me that those same individuals are actually just full of themselves.
IMHO, not trying to be offensive, JMHO.
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Originally Posted by divotdog
On the basis of this logic, it follows that when you get tired of "rules" that you will exercise your free will and not count all strokes, concede your own putts and otherwise play the game as it suits you but not according to "rules". Polite society has formed certain correct behaviors that are universally acknowledged by educated refined people and provide a basis for social intercourse. Other people do as they wish.
Nuff said of course. It just hit me when this subject opened up. We agree to disagree on proper social behavior but I bet we play golf from the same rule book. Life would be simpler and a lot less tense if we alll played by the same rules, eh?
end of discourse. carry on!
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