Topic: Breaking The Rules Has A Cost Or Penalty

Every time a rule is broken there is or should be a penalty. If there is no penalty for breaking the rules, the rules have no force behind them. People being people, if there is no penalty associated with a violation of the rules, then in the minds of potential rule-breakers, the rule means nothing. As simple as all this sounds, meting out penalties is a cumbersome and often delicate task. Our court systems and the various legal or law enforcement systems we have in our businesses and institutions are all geared toward setting an appropriate penalty for breaking a rule or breaking a law. For most people, just having a rule in place with the expectation the rule will be obeyed will be enough. However, for a minority of people, penalties must be set. Even when penalties are set for breaking a rule, people will still break the rule or break the law. In some instances, especially where a mass of the populace considers a rule unjust or unfair, a mass of the populace has no hesitancy in breaking a rule. People get in their cars and drive over the speed limit, many people use illegal drugs, and during Prohibition, people drank alcohol even though there were rules against such acts. For people who drive over the speed limit there are speeding tickets waiting if they are caught and accidents, perhaps death and injury waiting, if they are not caught. For those people using illegal drugs, there is a fine, imprisonment, and ill health, possibly death waiting. For those people who violated Prohibition, the penalty is still with us and costing us, for it was during the Prohibition era our current crime syndicate was born.

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