You Will Die If You Touch It

Before the Pottery Barn Rule, there was the Wedgwood Rule

Photo by Amir Hosseini on Unsplash

You may have heard of the Pottery Barn Rule: If you break it you own it. I first heard this while watching General Colin Powell explain his advice to President George W. Bush before the start of the Iraq War.

Well, we know how well that went. Several thousand Americans were killed or wounded…