Trading The Rules For The Exceptions? Well, Mostly.
In life we have the rules, and then we have the exceptions to the rules. A sampling of the rules go something like this:
- Women are the weaker sex.
- Abortion is the legalized murder of a baby.
- Men in the market for a wife prefer untattooed, debt-free virgins.
- Government assistance leads to government dependency.
- Masculinity is a good thing.
- The man is the head of the household.
- Christianity has a positive impact on civilization.
- Guns save lives.
- Terrorism is a decidedly Islamic activity
All of these rules are not only true, they are blatantly so. But there are exceptions:
- But there are some women out there who are stronger than some men.
- Some babies, by their presence in the womb, threaten the life of the mother.
- Some men are fine with tattooed, previously promiscuous, debt-ridden women.
- Some take advantage of government assistance to escape the government’s hell-holes.
- Some men are brutes.
- Some men are despotic tyrants in their home.
- Some who go by the name of Christian are destructive to society.
- Guns are used to cause harm.
- Timoty McVeigh
In the revolutionary shift that our society is now deep into, the shift appears to be based on the rejection of the rules in favor of the exceptions.
There are some rules that only one exception could prove them false as in the rule, “There is no such thing as a black swan. The discovery of only one black swan somewhere in the world would obviously prove that rule to be false. There appears to be an attempt, in fact, to extrapolate this logic into all of life so that in the end, one exception to “the rule” is reason enough to dispose of the rule altogether. By using this “reasoning” new rules can be created, fantasy rules that recreates God’s order into something more to man’s liking. So these become the new rules:
- Women are stronger than men.
- It’s good to kill babies in the womb.
- Tattooed, promiscuous debt-ridden women are the best to marry.
- Government assistance ought to be expanded more and more.
- All men are brutes.
- Men who think that they are the head of the household are despotic tyrants.
- Christianity is destructive to society, and it always has been, just look at Hitler and the Crusades.
- Guns are evil.
- Non-Muslims are just as likely to murder innocents to advance their cause.
So in contemporary thinking, the exceptions are the best way to order a society. But, as with all rules, there would appear to be exceptions even to this rule. Case in point:
- Most Muslims are not terrorists.
This is the rule, yes. It’s not the exception to the rule. It is the rule. But since Islam is not Christian, and since Islam has a fair amount of vitriol for Christians, then the rule stands supreme. That this thinking is more dangerous than a gun is cast aside for whatever reason and we are left with this:
- Islam, unlike Christianity, is good and righteous.
We live in a time of absurdity, to say the least, and it is a dangerous absurdity. In a normal society no one wants to play Russian roulette, but how much more so if the empty chamber was the only exception? No, a sane society is ordered around the rules while allowances are made for the exceptions remembering that a revolver, even with only one bullet in it, is still considered loaded.
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