Rules don’t govern our lives. They order them.

People govern our lives. And so do the organized institutions we establish to intentionally govern our lives.

Rules don’t act on their own. They always need back up. But they do offer a common language and expectation.

Rules also exist in both strict and loose forms.

The Constitution of the United States is full of vague rules that have to be interpreted to be applied to any situation we find ourselves in. And yet, taking the amendments to the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, we definitely can see the character of the law.

Of course, rules aren’t actually made to be broken. They’re made to be followed. But the whole idea of rules ordering society expects that some people will break them.

Certainly people will ask about how we deal with it when they do. The better questions are these:

• How might we make rules that are most effective?
• What can we do to ensure the most success of our ordered world?

Everything else is the pedestrian assumption that rules have a purpose other than to effectively order our lives. And virtually all of us does this ordering willingly.