exceptions

There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure.

What do you think? Overkill?""I don't believe there is any such thing.But in this case, 'yes, overkill.

By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.

There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.___hen has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?_ - Riker