Excessive rigidity of rules

Rules are wrongly formulated. Processes are too rigid to allow adaptation. They cannot allow life to occur.

The process — viewed as a whole — did not contain the capacity to create a living structure. It contained the capacity, only, to create a poor approximation to living structure, by following a rule-bound scheme that could not even see the wholeness, much less appreciate it or protect it.
If a process were to be defined, which might replace the too-rigid setback rule, it would have to be one that both protects the larger whole, and is sensitive to the variations and needs of smaller local wholes.

When an answer is “it depends”, is that a sign that we are looking at the bigger picture (aka wholeness), instead of just following protocol?

#book/The Nature of Order/2 The process of creating life/19 Massive process difficulties#