Those rules are essential and vital to our humanistic values that keep us grounded and keep us centered and keep us involved in the everyday grind of being an actual human being. And when we violate those rules, yes, we still maintain the breath in our bodies, but we become dead. We become empty of life. We become lifeless. We lose our vest. The moral of the rant is to hold onto of the Golden Rules of life because nothing is more precious than what gives life its value