Common Sense Evaluation

Those rules are not rules in the same way that the laws of nature are rules, that cannot be broken. They are rules in the sense that they describe observed behaviors, much as one might get some sense, at the least, of the rules of a sport or game by observing those who play the game and those who enforce the rules.

The rules were formulated by way of observation over many years. Attempts to order them according to importance have languished.

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