I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?

LEO DUROCHER

Are some rules truly meant to be broken?

There are no concrete answers to that question, for the simple reason that there are so many permutations in life as to make any one rule subject to so many potential what ifs?

I doubt there is one person reading this, wherever they are living around the world, that has not broken a rule at some point in their life. Consciously or subconsciously, we break rules and it is a part of daily life.

Does that negate the concept that some rules are truly not meant to be broken? To the contrary. I believe in a civilized society that there are countless rules that cannot and must not be broken, with significant infractions towards those who do break them.

The problem with that thought process is that who am I and who are you to arbitrate which of these rules cannot be broken?

And right there, your choice of government is determined.

For example, in a world thousands of years ago, a man supposedly came down from the mountain with two tablets with 10 rules on them.

Did everybody get to vote on whether they agreed with those 10? Nope. It became law. So much so that thousands of years later, those 10 remains etched all over our places of government across the Atlantic Ocean from where this man descended from the mountain.

With those 10 as a premise, countless billions of other restrictions have been ideated, formulated, and exercised on societies continuing to this very day.

Do we break rules? Yup. Sometimes proudly.

Are we anarchists for wanting to do so, or do we participate in a democracy in which the voting mechanism is our one and only hope at keeping the rules in accord with the majority of a specific society’s agenda?

If we lose sight of this one simple fact… our vote counts, then we are descending into dark territory that will not bode well for a free society.

Stand up for the rules that count. Break the ones that don’t. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does!

Happy Saturday!