Forgive me my hard words (I'm not really into a mood to choose my words carefully,lol), but I think a lot people are simply not capable of making their own, well-thought decisions. Which is not necessarily their own fault: they've grown up having to obey all this rules and laws - they are like brainwashed.
I mean, just some simple examples: I've seen people wait fo.r a red light to turn green for 25 minutes. It took me less than 10 to realize the system was broken, but I stayed and watched just to see how long they would keep waiting - what can I say, I love social experiments :0)
After 25 minutes I had to go because I had an appointment, so I don't know how long they stayed there, but it was hilarious.
And it wasn't just one car, but many.
You can consider those people as being 'good' for not breaking the rules, but to me it's just another example of how people are not able to know whether it is smart to follow the rules, or just plain stupid.
(History has showed us those kind of people are simply dangerous.)
I was discussing leavig trash all aound with someone earlier this week, and we agreed that we couldn't understand that people - in spite of all awareness campaigns - were still littering all around.
Last week a friend of mine tossed his burning cigarette bud out of the car window - while it hasn't rained for weeks...
As sad as it may be for those who are capable of making their own relevant choices, and know the difference between right and wrong, a lot of people have to be protected against themselves...
We do have quite some crazy laws here in Belgium. Next to the old ones that are not relevant anymore (like the King still being allowed to send soldiers to Belgian Congo - while it hasn't been a colony anymore since 1960), they introduced a new kind of fines a couple of years ago. I can't really translate into English, but those fines are different for every city. In some cities, it is forbidden to sit on the back of benches in a park, in others it is forbidden to climb a tree, to play false notes as a street musician, to scare someone and other stupid things. In our beautiful city of Antwerp it is even forbidden to demonstrate against those fines... I'd say: no more of those
LOL, those are some seriously crazy laws... I wonder why they are still on the books? Surely, if they went to be tested, they would fall...
Of course, the rules only define the framework of the game! If that results in deadlock, then something needs to be circumvented! I think history has shown us that both well intentioned rule breaking and blind obedience have all caused problems! As far as I understand, you have also made the same point, that both extremes of blind obedience and sheer neglect of rules is not really a great way to live!
Maybe in the end, all kinds of people are dangerous!
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