by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We make rules. Why? Sometimes it is petty and to serve our ego. Pause and think (two pretty good rules about rules).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We make a rule for or over or against the persons we know or our work colleagues. We cannot enforce that rule over all the persons who are supposed to be covered. We can, however, enforce the rule now and then, here and there, on this person or that, but not on everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poor person on whom we enforce it is in big trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This selective and harsh enforcement appears to be \u201cpicking on\u201d someone So when we pass such a rule that is not broadly enforceable, we know that we It is our ego (WE HAVE THE POWER) not the general good we want to please. Hmmm, that “ego” thing, again. I guess that is a bad thing, huh? Well, maybe this time I will overlook my joy of having power over whom I want and just…<\/p>\n\n\n\n No. Bad idea. Why am I “making rules?” Are they for the good of all or just something else? Pause and think. (Gosh, those are two things I don’t like to do on some days. And did I just make two rules to apply to myself?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We make rules. Why? Sometimes it is petty and to serve our ego. Pause and think (two pretty good rules about rules). We make a rule for or over or against the persons we know or our work colleagues. We cannot enforce that rule over all the persons who are supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,325,257,231,67],"tags":[120,326,258,232,187],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-purpose","category-respect","category-trust","category-work","tag-adults","tag-purpose","tag-respect","tag-trust","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
or just plain using a silly rule as a way to punish select individuals whom we want
to select and punish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
are passing it just to give ourselves power to punish individuals that we want
to punish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n