Both law and rule are essentially there to keep people happy and safe. Therefore, we do not live our lives to be threatened by or to be driven by laws and rules. Laws and rules change according to occasion and situation, and if something beyond expectations happens, you can superscription your happiness and safety as your first priority.

This thought that one should make one’s own decisions is connected to self-assurance, to live one’s life as it is and according to one’s own intuition. Why Silicon Valley people have so much self-esteem. Why Silicon Valley people have so much self-esteem.

So you’re thinking, “I’m worth more than the law or the rules,” which is putting yourself on a higher pedestal than thinking, “The rules are worth more than my happiness.”

relevance - We must break the law.


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