"Without consensus within a society of what is "right", doing your "little fixes" is counterproductive. Why? The reason is because you have one set of people thinking one way is right while another group thinks the complete opposite is right."
But perhaps part of the "little fixes" is also trying to persuade others to your point of view, which is a way of building consensus. It may be, though, that you are right in that simply getting angry about things and trying to legislate it away is not helpful in the way that dealing directly with the purpetrators and showing them why what they are doing is wrong would be. In that case, I absolutely agree with you...contacting congressmen, etc., to try to get legislation in place may be a laudable effort, but a much more useful effort might be to get in contact with the people whose behaviour you are trying to change and persuade them to change it of their own volition...instead of bringing the might of the government to bear against them. Although from what I've read, it seems that Modesitt might agree with a precept of "might for right" and make a distinction between that and "might makes right", which isn't a distinction you seem to make...although I may be wrong on both counts. Plus I'm pretty tired, it being 1:46 am and me having just playing NWN for the last four hours or so...gummy eyes...<mumbles his way to bed>...
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