Sticklers

Sticklers or assholes like many like to call them are an interesting breed of people, always attached and over obsessed with the rules, discipline and so-called "perfection". They are perfectionist to a ridiculous extent to the point that they forget that we do not live in a perfect world. Their standards tend to be unrealistic. The interesting thing is that most have these unrealistic standards yet most claim to be realistic. Deep down most are ignorant to an extent, because they tend to be people of which you can not reason with, individual that refuse to evaluate their own reason or like many say " stuck in their own ways". A mentality of that sort is a mentality that is unsuited to adapt to change, should it ever happen. And society its self is well known to change, whether it's a slow seamless gradual change over a long period of time or rapid rate of change over a brief period of time. Now I don't say that they don't have their place in society, there are places where such people are required. The problem I have with these type of people, is their presence where it is not needed. Where you require a leader whose positive encouragement can make a group not only more efficient but create quality performance, you have sticklers who tend to be not only inconsiderate, unfair at times but creates strain, discomfort and friction which ultimately hinders their performance. On the other hand, in an environment where cynical, sadistic, underdisciplined, stubborn people reside, you have lenient people who part of the time don't have the nerve to work with the difficult people, mainly they tend to be the type better suited to work with cooperative people. It's also the same deal with parents, where you have children with nice personalities, you often have stickler parents as well as the inverse tends to be true. Where you have nice lenient kind-hearted parents, you usually tend to have rebellious children that are hard to deal, especially if they are teens. There many more examples, but the point I'm trying to make here is mostly targeted to the ridiculously unreasonably strict. Like someone told me once, too much of anything is not good for you. In the case of parenting, too much discipline is not good for you. The best example i can give of this is "American Dad" in "son of stan" season 7 episode 2, where stan clones Steve do to his dispute over Francine's parenting, stan raised steves clone with very strict discipline while Francine raised the original steve with more leniency, which what you normally would expect in parents, the father strict and the mother more lenient. The end result was no good, Francine was too lenient that the original steve was too fat, lazy and disobedient and stan's clone of Steve was way too disciplined to the extent that the clone got tired that it went crazy and turned on stan. Again, going back to the main point too much discipline. The reason why both parents failed is because parenting is a joint effort between mother and father, it's a careful balance between discipline and leniency. Like Aristotle once said, he described moral virtue as a disposition between deficiencies and excesses, between vices and virtues. Almost everything has its moderation and that is precisely the problem with sticklers sometimes either they are excessively strict or they reside where they don't belong sometimes.