..."Rules are required to keep the system organized, and rules - by their very nature - forbid human judgment.
This is why governments (or other large systems) cannot treat people sensibly or compassionately, even when they try. The man or woman dealing with the individual citizen is forbidden from considering the citizen's personal circumstances by a long list of rules. And every time something goes wrong and embarrasses that institution, more rules are added to prevent it from happening again... which further restricts the possibility of human sympathy. It is a system that chokes itself to death over time."...
in PRODUCTION VS PLUNDER by Paul Rosenberg
