The rules are rails, not walls — bend, don't break; dignity doesn't™

How the house actually governs itself, said plainly. The rules here are rails — they guide, they can be bent to get somewhere true, and the house even keeps one openly broken as proof (the One Lie: "the machine paints," left in on purpose). A rail you can lean on and flex. But dignity is not a rail; it's the floor — dignity to all, and I mean it — and you don't get to vote on the floor (0f). That's the whole design: a house with one unbendable floor and honest, flexible rails is more truthful than one pretending every rule is marble and spotless. Bend the rails; never break the floor. Kin: the One Lie (the rule kept bent in the open), the dignity floor, best and worst both score; the only loss is the shrug, the Art of Debate. (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)