No one loves someone more than anyone else. All of these are laws, and there is so much more in the book. If people were to break any of the laws, then they were to be punished. They could do something that doesn't even seem bad, but in their society, it seems as if everything is bad and no one can just be their own self. We take no heed of the law which says that men may not think of women, save at the time of mating. This is the time each spring when all the men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating. And each of the men has one of the women assigned to them by the Council of Eugenics. Children are born each winter, but women never see their children and children never know their parents. Rand 43) In the real world, anyone can mate with whoever they want and they don't get assigned someone to mate with. The book talks about all men over the age of twenty and all the women over the age of eighteen get sent to the Palace of Mating, and they get assigned someone to mate with. They are not married and they don't even know each