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Just wrote this out as some random thoughts.
"Ignore all rules" is just "Be bold" applied to things other than basic editing of articles.
I interpret it this way: IAR follows from: (1) consensus being Wikipedia's fundamental decision-making process and (2) human nature when it comes to enforcing rules.