Rules

Our world is in love with rules.  They make people feel secure.

After all, if there are rules that means someone really knows!  Right?

Nope.  It means someone had enough gall to say they know, or believe they know.  At their best, rules are a guide line to the most common ways done by the most people.  Or they are simply an out and out attempt to make people do things a certain way for whatever reason.

It is necessary to have a lot of beliefs in order to follow rules.  One is that the maker of the rules had my best interests at heart.  Two is that there is hard evidence that these rules supersede all others in all ways.  Three is that there is a need for me to see that these rules make my world a better place in some way that I agree with and understand.

And lastly, the punishment for breaking the rules is such that I don't want to risk it.  I think this one is the only one a lot of people are concerned with.  Otherwise we would not have so many rules.

And that might be a very good thing.