The current status of Universal Grammar is characteristic of uncertainties even with such basic and core definitions as c-command and minimality. A constant awareness of this situation should humble a general UG-practitioner in their assessment of the intellectual values of ideas different from theirs or outside their comfort zone. Specific case studies are provided regarding, among others, an alternative definition of Case which pioneered core ideas in the later Minimalist Program, the role of iconicity in understanding the serial verb construction, and Semitic morphological causativization of which the syntactic behavior varies with the categories of the roots. Each case illustrates how MR may obstruct independent thinking. Meanwhile, the positive role of MR in independent thinking is also stated and reasoned explicitly to set up the overall context for later chapters. It is proposed, also with concrete examples, that the negative effect of MR can be countered by consciously exploring the integration of the strengths among (apparently) opposing ideas.