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Cardinal rule?

The Christian church also speaks of cardinal sins, i.e. sins that are so terrible that they’re unforgivable. In other words, they’re so bad that you’re advised not to ever commit them.

People in China talk of Four Cardinal Principles, meaning the four basic, most important principles for governing the country.

They used to talk about them, that is. Back in the 1980s. Not these days. Nobody talks about principles any more these days, cardinal or trivial. The young generations no longer have any principles, it seems.

I don’t mean to suggest the older generations were any the wiser over matters of principle, but it does seem that they were the ones who cared more about matters of principle, such as character, duty and moral fiber.

Today’s generation appears to care much more about money matters. Again, I’m not suggesting that matters of principle don’t matter to them, but money appears to matter more.

As a matter of fact, on second thought and at least in appearance, money matters do seem to matter much more these days than matters of principle do – if you’re able to get the gist of this mouthful.

Alright, let’s examine “cardinal rule” – which is too important a rule to break or violate – further in context via media examples:

1. A cardinal rule of broadcasting is never to run; if you arrive breathless in the studio, it is impossible to recover. Another is that two presenters should never talk together – the listeners hate it. And if you raise your voice – there are exceptions to this – you have probably lost control.