Only our rivers run free

We were talking this morning about rules and breaking them, we being Eamon and myself. He was trying to figure out why there are rules if people are just automatically going to try and break them, and I shared that it's a patriarchal thing, about needing authority to have something to work against being an acceptable part of our nature. Unfortunately there are extremes in each case. People who will be more than authoritarian leaning towards the tyrannical, and others who will break the rules to the degree of criminal behavior.
Neither Eamon or I are cheaters, and I mean this in terms of our education or games. Nothing has ever been important enough to cheat in order to win but rules, are a whole nother thing.