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My thoughts exactly.

This "style" of thought? I'm not sure what you'd call it is something we're seeing more and more often in today's culture. The premise that if something, anything, ever goes wrong while using any "system" the solution is not to address the issues as they come up but to abolish the entire system and start over. Often, by recreating the same system but with extra steps or one that relies on everyone thinking similarly and coming to same conclusions. The catch is it's their system and therefore it's better. Like was said, in theory, alot of the proposed systems do work but in reality it rarely goes like planned and most of time ends in utter failure. Most of the proposed systems are rather logical. If 9 is the desired outcome you just add the appropriate amount to the given number and voila 9. The problem is that when you add people it's more like you have an orange, a 2, and a rock. If 9 is still the desired amount what do you add now?

Ditto.

Like I said. community trust and behaviour like this is more common than most believe. You can even see it portrayed in tv shows and movies. That "small town feel" is essentially what we're talking about. Low population size combined with similar if not identical cultural values lead that increased trust and behaviour. This ^ just makes for an easy example because of how homogeneous the Scandinavian countries are.