So let me get this straight.
1. You don't, and have never broken any aviation rules.
2. You don't, and have never broken any driving rules.
You're far from straight, my friend. I never said any of the above. But I don't break aviation rules for the purpose of showing off, and I don't drink drive!
sometimes rules must be broken in the interests of operational effectiveness and sometimes even safety.
Very true - but how can you justify the C-17 pilot, on a training flight, flying his aircraft so far outside the rules that it crashed? Where's the safety or operational effectiveness in that?