This is a page about the "Rules are Just Guidelines" meme.

Star Trek DS9 episode about the "Rules of Acquisition" being guidelines

Barbossa about the pirate code being guidelines

Nothing but Trouble Film

The bylaws are so complex and numerous that judges use reason, logic, and gut feeling anyway.

Taking Guidelines as Dogma is the Problem

Excerpt from the essay "Commercial Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), crossovers and parodies as 2021 geek/hacker imperatives for revitalising the film industry".

Origins of conciousness and "craziness" hypothesis

The gods were just guidelines and "guideline-factories".