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If you want people to voluntarily follow the law, you must have laws that everyone respects. In other words they have to be reasonable for the subjects of the l
by ersii 10y ago
If you want people to voluntarily follow the law, you must have laws that everyone respects. In other words they have to be reasonable for the subjects of the law.
You always have a choice to either follow the law or not to follow the law.
Both choices come with consequences that can be either positive or negative to you - it all depends on situation.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoSomewhat true - though "everyone" is an impossible target. Majority, yes. That said, part of living in a society is following the laws you don't like too. The cases where an upstanding citizen will decide to disobey the Man exist, though they are rare in a functioning society. What I find problematic is encouraging people to treat breaking random laws for no serious reason as a good thing.
- x1798DE 10y ago> The cases where an upstanding citizen will decide to disobey the Man exist, though they are rare in a functioning society. How does your contention account for speeding, jaywalking and marijuana use? Those are three examples that jump to mind of laws that are essentially universally flaunted in the US (and I suspect elsewhere). Is America not a functional society, or do we have almost no upstanding citizens?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThere's no perfect society on this planet :). But you can thank those speeding for a significant fraction of avoidable traffic deaths you have each year.
- mountaineer22 10y agoSo, the majority of traffic-related deaths in the US are all speeding related?
- greeneggs 10y agoHe said "significant fraction," not majority. In 2014 in the US, speeding was a factor in 28% of motor vehicle crash deaths. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/overview-of-fatality-facts http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
- ersii 10y agoMy point, if it was not clear - is simply that if you want a near complete (you'll always have strays) compliance rate - you need to have laws that the subjects are willing to follow - in another words, that they respect.