It’s the Law!

Our last-born was light-heartedly complaining about something that was causing her (& us) some slight inconvenience and responded by saying, “How inconsiderate of them!” Our first-born responded by saying, “It’s the Law!”

The reply didn’t really please her either, but she accepted that, because the law is there to protect and guide the majority, for the greater good of all. Unfortunately sometimes, to do that, it infringes upon the freedom and wants of a few.

What about you? How do you respond to these minor inconveniences to your desires and wants?

Do you just accept them, amidst minor grumbles like my last born? Or do you simply ignore the Law or even fight against the rights of the majority, just to protect your own rights or, to put it more crudely, to get your own way at any cost?

Sometimes we may grumble and complain, but if it is to the benefit of the majority, then we should generously, if not gratefully, give up our rights for the greater good, knowing that there will surely be many other situations where we are the beneficiaries of some other minorities rights being infringed for the greater good of all. What say you? Walter