Rules exist not to keep the lessers in line; it’s the bar that exists which prevents kings from killing their subjects on a tantrum.

The “exception to the rule” isn’t, “He’s allowed to do that.”

What makes HiM the exception is the fact that the king wouldn’t kill HiM regardless of whatever He did…

Random Thought #219: X-ception-L Narcissist

Random Thought #387: X-Ceptional