The Problem With Rules

The more extensive or universal we try to make a rule or principle, the more vulnerable and the more intrusive it is liable to be.  What had application to the life or the individual will falter as it is extended to others and in time it may not really apply at all.  It will have become too universal, seeking a universe having very distinct needs and a different understanding.  Better to offer little more than the manner in which we believe as individuals, and saying at times how that belief might extend into action, allowing others to recognize, and maybe adopt (or adapt) what is available.  It was our rule or understanding, at least for now, and others may accommodate it to their lives, incorporating it into their own beliefs.  This was we can perhaps avoid the insistence and the animosity so often so evident in the lives of otherwise good people.  Less extensive rules with less universal applications are more respectful, even if they require more trust.