....the first set of traffic lights in the UK were outside the Houses of Parliament. Now, many road junctions are governed by them. When they turn red, cars must stop. When they are green, they must go. Every so often, those lights fail, motorists are left to make their own decisions and the traffic invariably flows much faster. (Well, in many places they do.)
Those lights are not intelligent, they do not see what is coming or going, they just give out arbitrary instructions on the basis of a timer. Yet we follow their orders without question. Out on the road that is sensible.
But the thing is, in your life are you sticking to a questionable rule?
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Mark Twain)
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