Rules are Meant to be Broken

When I was young my parents had this rule that I could never have dessert before dinner. I hated it because as with most kids dessert was the best part of my day. When I was 9 years old I had enough, my friend at the time josh was over and we decided to break the one rule that was never supposed to be broken, eat dessert before dinner.

We rode our push bikes down to the local store and bought a 2 liter container of neapolitan ice-cream and smuggled it into my room under my jumper. We hadn't eaten anything all day in preparation and were starving. Together we ate that whole container of ice-cream within the hour and within the next 40 minutes we were vomiting it back up.

Although it is a light hearted example of breaking a rule, I understand that if I hadn't broken that one rule I might still be eating dinner before dessert without any knowledge of why I was doing it. Sure, rules are set so we can all live in a perfect world but in the end the perfect world is the one we don't appreciate because we haven't learnt from our mistakes and experienced the reason for the rule in the first place.

Making mistakes and learning from them is instrumental in human development and rules are made to be broken to push us further into understanding our own boundaries and the worlds reasons for having rules. Rules are meant to be broken so we can learn for our own, and each others mistakes.

According to my view, we may have an opportunity to know something new by breaking the rules.

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We should follow rules unless they aren't harming us or anyone if they aren't snatching our freedom. And when it comes to self-defense then definitely rules need to be broken because no one wanna lose his/her life for just being sincere to some kind of useless rules. Example :-if you see a girl being groped by some fellow guys then according to rule you should inform the police but what if you have no time, then the rule need to be broken and you have to take some strong actions to save that girl.

Good Evening,

In my opinion, the statement Rules are meant to be broken is partially correct. It depends upon the rules which are to be broken or not, for example, there are some traffic rules which are not meant to be broken and we should follow them properly, also there are some laws which were set by Britishers in India, but they harass some our peoples in many ways, that's why many Nationalists and Freedom Fighters gave up their life fighting the Britisher for our freedom and by breaking the laws. So it depends upon the Rules which affect the majority of the people. Rules are set by the government which are always in favour of the masses and when the masses do not agree with the rules or want some changes in it, they broke the rules. In football, you break the rules of the game you are out of the game.

So yes, Rules are meant to be broken but not always.

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I wouldn't say that rules are meant to be broken, but they can be if really needed. Rules are established for normal circumstances, but it is not the same every time. So, rules can be broken if there is no other way.

Rules are something which people must need to follow but I can say that if we will break the rules then maybe we can learn something new. This is like 2 sides of a coin.

We got some inventions and records by breaking rules so I think break rules one time and enjoy life, it's different and wonderful experience.

It's depend on person.

Personally I break the social rules many times to enjoy life, mostly break the social rules made for girls, go against of it and I can live my life because many people are there like me who have their own dreams to fulfill. Who don't like social restrictions.

Rules are made not to break. If one breaks the rule then it will create the internal disputes in the country like ours. If that rule is broken for some emergency cases than people think that Government is doing partiality. And people will be against the prosperity and law of the country. So there should be some punishment for those who breaks the law.

Rules are not meant to be broken anyway if it was meant to be broken then why do we make rules. So to me, rules are not meant to be broken.

I think that rules are not always meant to be broken. I feel the context of breaking the rules varies in accordance with the situation. Rules made for public interests must never be broken like following traffic rules etc. For instance if rules are made to do a problem in maths only by a particular way or to adhere to a set of instructions devised by some people in solving some kind of problem is'nt always advisable from my perspective. Have felt so because it hinders a different individual's problem solving ability and creativity. Maybe that person can device a better method or a simpler one. In such instances rules are to be broken.