Anything that you can have both ways can equally and unequivocally manifest in opposition to NOT be had both ways.  This is a kind of universal law of converse.  It is real.  Indeed.  That is why people who habitually  — (or selfishly or habitually out of selfish habit) – set themselves up to always have it both ways can never rest easy. 

There is a torturing tyranny in the selfish attempts to have oneself always come out on top.  And when fear and finality is involved this torturing tyranny is terrifically terrorizing.

It works for the individual as well as it works for the institutional.

Therefore have compassionate pity for the meddling selfish for they torment themselves to no end in a temporal hell.

They create the arbitrary out of choice. They set the standard. What they bind is bound upon them. And they never loosen. (For long. Or without severe regret).

Have compassionate pity for them more when, for the image of goodness’ sake, they mindlessly and possibly unknowingly project this depravity outward onto the scapegoat ‘other’. For then they cause worldly harm as they disqualify themselves from celestial goodness in torment of the mind.

Have compassionate pity for them a thousand times more when they cling to the image of them (& their like) as good (or as designated for special goodness).

And the laws work against them.  The more they work the laws the more the laws work against them.  This is true torment.  It is a heavy yoke.

The sincere and honest, on the other hand, who find a way (or ways) to train themselves to be happy with what comes along and with how it comes out and who don’t spend forth wasteful effort to make it come out in their favor:  why they never suffer the universal law of converse. Such law does not apply to them.  They may find that it always comes out well.

The laws work in the quietude for them.  They have peace of mind.

May peace be with you.