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Topic:
Breaking The Rules Has A Cost Or Penalty
Every time a rule is broken there is or should be a penalty. If there
is no penalty for breaking the rules, the rules have no force behind
them. People being people, if there is no penalty associated with a
violation of the rules, then in the minds of potential rule-breakers,
the rule means nothing. As simple as all this sounds, meting out
penalties is a cumbersome and often delicate task. Our court systems and
the various rule or law enforcement systems we have in our businesses
and institutions are all geared toward setting an appropriate penalty
for breaking a rule or breaking a law. For most people, just having a
rule in place with the expectation the rule will be obeyed will be
enough. However, for a minority of people, penalties must be set. Even
when penalties are set for breaking a rule, people will still break the
rule or break the law. In some instances, especially where a mass of the
populace considers a rule unjust or unfair, a mass of the populace has
no hesitancy in breaking a rule. People get in their cars and drive over
the speed limit, many people use illegal drugs, and during Prohibition,
people drank alcohol even though there were rules against such acts. For
people who drive over the speed limit there are speeding tickets waiting
if they are caught and accidents, perhaps death and injury waiting, if
they are not caught. For those people using illegal drugs, there is a
fine, imprisonment, and ill health, possibly death waiting. For those
people who violated Prohibition, the penalty is still with us and
costing us, for it was during the Prohibition era that our current crime
syndicate was born.
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These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
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