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"Fire is hard, cars are hard, and if you think you can fly, start from the ground."

Rules don't matter. Ethics do.

The former exist in the service of the latter. One problem we have with contemporary US culture is condoning a sort of twisted narcissistic, psychopathic assertion that because competently breaking the rules is sometimes ethical, breaking the rules is a sign of competence.

"Don't be evil."

But when "the ends justify the means"?

The ends may justify the means in abstract, but they don't among humans.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_hum...

The means you use determine the ends you get.

"Do the right thing."