Guidelines are all around us. Some are more strict than others. For example, when you go driving, there are speed limits. These are a guideline for more or less safe.
You could theoretically drive as fast as you want, but there are limits to how accurately your car can turn a corner going so fast. So these limits are guidelines that are useful to prevent you from having an accident. And failure to respect these guidelines can be enforced by the state who will have its revenue collection agents known as police give you tickets for failure to abide by the speed limit guidelines.
Some guidelines have been imposed in a criminal manner, such as the obligation to wear seatbelts, or locking the door. Revenue collection agents, police, obey their orders to extort money from people for failing to lock their doors, or failing to wear a seatbelt.
You aren't harming anyone when you don't wear your seatbelt. You aren't harming anyone when you don't lock your door. Your body is your property, and if you want to take the risk to not protected with the seatbelts than that is your choice. The same with locking your door, it is your car that is your property, and if you don't do that then you make it easier for someone to potentially steal something in your car or your car itself. But these are your choices.
So these are just some examples of guidelines that have become laws, corrupt laws, where there is no victim but you're making people into a type of criminal for violating these made-up laws.
But overall, a guideline is something that is a suggestion, a guide to follow. When it comes to driving, not following the guidelines can harm others. So it's understandable that there are measures to coerce people into being more responsible with their driving that they may otherwise choose to neglect and put others at risk by unsafe driving.
Guidelines tend to become obeyed though. You become like a law. People robotically obey them because they have been imposed on us through some authoritative body of some kind, or the dictate of authority, and individual authority who declares that they have the right to tell other people what to do, or else.
When it comes to medicine, guidelines and policies are also followed unquestioningly in many cases. We seen a lot of this robotic behavior with people who were unable to breathe due to a lack of oxygen in their blood, and rather than addressing that the policy dictated that you had to shove a tube down her throat to force air into their lungs which didn't actually help them to get more oxygen.
Here is a doctor talking about how his colleague just follows guidelines, rather than think for himself on how to best treat someone.
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1462491469621698574
- Kukicat7
It's truly remarkable to hear how some people think. People have been conditioned to obey authority so well. They have been conditioned to be robots in their thinking.
They are so well conditioned to not think for themselves that anyone who does think for themselves is seen as crazy, or even dangerous. That if you don't do what a top down authority tells you you should do, or must do, that you are a bad person. That you are harming others by not doing what and authority tells you to do.
People aren't questioning whether the guidelines or policies and procedures are right or wrong. They are merely obeying them. And anything that isn't in the guidelines, or that the guidelines expressly oppose, is anathema and heresy for them. Under no circumstances can they be allowed to do such a thing.
Don't look at the motivations behind these guidelines, what financial ties an organization has but could help explain why these guidelines are put in place. And it's sad to see that so many doctors who are supposed to be making individual decisions that is best for their patients, making individual assessments for people and trying to find the best treatments for them, are merely robotic non-thinkers who follow what top-down authorities tell them they are or aren't allowed to do.