[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

I used to say, as someone who has pretty much always struggled with sleep, what is the point of turning up at school half asleep and learning nothing when I can get some sleep and turn up awake the next day fully awake and refreshed and do it twice as well?

Try saying that to an employer and you'll find out what's wrong with it.

A prospective employer may write to the school for references and "persistent tardiness" will immediately turn them off.

When my daughter applied for a college course and part of the requirement was that she turn up on time or she would be chucked off the course. She wouldn't get away with saying "I felt tired so I had a lie in so that I can be twice as alert tomorrow."

Originally Posted by blazey

I view rules as guidelines, kind of a safe route if you may. You follow the rules though and you never really stand out. If you bend the rules and find new methods of doing things, that's when you are really noticed. I stand by that and I always will, because it has got me where I am right now and it's thought that I am going to go far, so why should I shun that?

So how do you reconcile that view with the law that you are studying? Are the laws (rules) of the land merely guidelines to be ignored and bent as and when you wish in order to find new ways of doing things? When does theft become a mere bending of the rules in order to redistribute wealth more fairly? How about murder? Is that a justifiable bending of the rules if someone is getting in the way of you acheiving your goals?