As an aside, “work-to-rule” is a tactic that labor organizations have used to demonstrate the issues that onerous rules and procedures can rob people of their adaptive capacities, and therefore bring business to an effective standstill.
This is also mirrored in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual:
(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.
What I coveted was the shears
The potential for violence, for cutting the flowers, for almost sabotaging her own reproductive system which is deemed by Gilead to be a gift, a valuable resource. She doesn't want to be valued.
1:15 Kyle forced his progress from 25-30 years. Trying too hard, chasing too hard, is counter-productive ("cosmic paradox")
See ZK on trying too hard is counterproductive