Seeker

Yakk, I think you are distiguishing the difference between the people that blindly follow 'rules' because they are rules (or social contracts as BigBen931 mentioned earlier), and people who have actively sought to understand 'why' rules are in place and have the mental capacity to decide how they relate to their moral code, and therefore will decide that an act was or was not 'against the rules' (read; if they are beneficial social contracts that are worthy of being upheld).

There have been many examples of people fighting for amendments to rules based on careful thought and consideration.

There are others however, who are just sheep and follow the rules, they don't want to expend any energy asking the why's and how-comes of rules.

I am not sure if this is clear or correct, but that is how I would explain it.

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