From an early age I was taught two maxims:
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.
Just because someone doesn’t, it doesn’t mean they can’t.
These two statements, while coming from different points of view, are inexorably linked, much as two different sides of the same coin.
Though I never heard them actually expressed this way until I was at least in my early teens, that didn’t diminish the concepts they convey. I learned, often by very uncomfortable means, the repercussions of ignoring those truisms. Whether it was punishment or unintended consequences, the lessons were taught and reinforced.
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