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**TaoJones** · 22-06-2009, 23:35

Mesquaukee, I'm so sorry to read about the loss of your two pals. A lot of people might scoff at the notion of a dog dieing of a broken heart, but not me. It absolutely can, and does, happen. Thanks for posting about your dogs (oh yeah, and the cat, too

).

In your experience, was it primarily former British protectorates that adhered most stringently to bureaucratic red tape? I've read that during the height of the British Empire, when the sun ne'er set on same, rabies was a common problem. Because the British had the power, and the will, to attempt to control the spread of rabies, they instituted some draconian measures to discourage the free movement of potential carriers of the virus.

As with so much seemingly mindless bureaucracy, once a rule is set in place it never goes away, even if the facts underlying the policy change. And many a burearcrat, if he/she had to try and answer the question "Why are you doing this?" would merely shrug the shoulders and acknowledge that's just the way it's always been done (anything that pre-dates the bureaucrat's employment qualifying as "always.")

TaoJones

22-06-2009, 23:35	#12
TaoJones Moderator Moderator Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles sobre El Río Porciuncula, Alta California Posts: 3,570	Mesquaukee, I'm so sorry to read about the loss of your two pals. A lot of people might scoff at the notion of a dog dieing of a broken heart, but not me. It absolutely can, and does, happen. Thanks for posting about your dogs (oh yeah, and the cat, too ). In your experience, was it primarily former British protectorates that adhered most stringently to bureaucratic red tape? I've read that during the height of the British Empire, when the sun ne'er set on same, rabies was a common problem. Because the British had the power, and the will, to attempt to control the spread of rabies, they instituted some draconian measures to discourage the free movement of potential carriers of the virus. As with so much seemingly mindless bureaucracy, once a rule is set in place it never goes away, even if the facts underlying the policy change. And many a burearcrat, if he/she had to try and answer the question "Why are you doing this?" would merely shrug the shoulders and acknowledge that's just the way it's always been done (anything that pre-dates the bureaucrat's employment qualifying as "always.") TaoJones __________________ "Your vision becomes clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks within, awakens." Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)