Humans throughout all time have always tried to know exactly where the line is, the way we can get right up to the edge of too much, maybe a toe over the line. From land speed records, BASE jumping, even leaps from space. Humans are excited about the prospect of breaking rules, it gives us a certain excitement. Or we do this to find exactly what the minimum effort we can possibly give is. How we can put in just enough to get by. This is very similar to what the teacher in the law tried to do in his question to Jesus. He wanted to find that line, so he could use it against others. However Jesus laid out something vastly different.