According to the letter of the law, a person is kept in check. When a person gets too comfortable and leans too far against the rope, they are pulled in by the law most uncomfortably.
The way to live life is without bonds. Don't be a slave to the law, be a slave to your own stupidity and let an early death be the sting. That is where you will find your satisfaction.
Let me say, it's where I've been finding mine even though I haven't died, and the clock has been ticking on a few million years… probably.
Well, here's just an example of how I live my life: I leaned out the shield bay as my starship was hurtling down towards the ground. The flames from our descent just about melted my face off.
I turned inside the ship towards my copilot who was a stunningly beautiful woman. "Hehe, I think I got a lil sunburnt."
