Rules and leeway

Monday, March 12, 2007
Ore : 4:11 PM

Rules are made to be broken. Although it does not sound proper, it certainly have some degree of truth.

There are few Hard and fast rules. Most rules are just convention or even for the ease of governance that allow space for manipulation.


I always give the example of masturbation. Society is never in a position to encourage and yet I am sure most of the teenagers try it sometime in their life. Does the social stability ever been jeopardized by breach of rules?

Certainly it would be foolish to forbid it completely.


I can never imagine anyone to adhere strictly to the moral teaching and restrain himself for some meaningless purpose. Omg the organ has been on your body for twenty years and you don’t even know how to operate it? If in the end the poor fellow is sexually incompetent who is to blame? Even monkeys need to practice sexual postures in order to gain sexual maturity.

Is he Morally perfect or just pure dumb?

The same applies for rules governing playing truancy, cheating, smoking, drinking…


If there is no breach of rules, there won't be any progress for mankind.

Only those brave enough can have new discoveries. When they grow up they will establish new rules.

If old rules are never challenged new rules will never be set up. That is how society progress. We don’t know which rules work best and some rules probably work well for the moment only.


On the other hand, we can do away with rules completely. That will be confusion, no guidance and nothing to follow/break.


The key is set up the rules for the general people and leave the leeway for those capable of breaking them.


I like the way Dalai Lama put it in a more subtle way: learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. That’s what I call the wisdom of life.



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