It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
“It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.”