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What happens when you break the rules?

"Some rules are made to be broken." How many times have you heard that said? How many times have you said it? Some rules don't make sense to me. Some make sense but go too far. Some don't go far enough. Man-made rules will always have flaws. The one argument I detest the most for the rationalization of breaking a rule is, "I'm not hurting anybody." It can be restated this way, the breaking of this rule will not have an impact on anyone other than myself, and it may not even impact me. How true is that? I believe that statement can never be true. We (the breakers of the rules) may or may not ever realize or see the impact the broken rule has on ourselves or others. That does not mean the impact does not exist. Caveat: if you are not a Christian or believer in the God of the Christian/Hebrew Bible, you may as well not read the rest of my thoughts. What was the first rule broken by humans? Someone looked at, took, and ate something they were told not ...