Creating a system around it isn't inherently bad either as long as you realise what you're doing isn't actually *working* (e.g. dead people reading the letters). For instance, I went through a long period of not walking on cracks in the pavement because I felt it was unlucky, or even now I try not to open a packet of crisps 'upside down' because "all the luck will fall out". I know these things are irrational, and generally I try to change myself so I stop doing them. If I continued to do them but realised they're just some stupid thing I was told when I was a kid and aren't really true, but did them anyway because it stopped me feeling distressed then I think that would be ok.
So perhaps I don't think these people are quite as strange as you do. As long as they realise the true nature of what is going on.
It's clearly very bad if Binker starts saying things back. It's also bad (more generally) if people doing irrational things start to believe they're no longer irrational, and really really bad when they start to try to encourage/impose their irrational beliefs on the rest of society.
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Date: 2007-05-20 09:23 pm (UTC)So perhaps I don't think these people are quite as strange as you do. As long as they realise the true nature of what is going on.
It's clearly very bad if Binker starts saying things back. It's also bad (more generally) if people doing irrational things start to believe they're no longer irrational, and really really bad when they start to try to encourage/impose their irrational beliefs on the rest of society.