>I understand that this came across as rude, but I'm not trying to say that Germany is a Kafkaesque hellhole. I love Germany. Simply this - there is no 'good fa

>I understand that this came across as rude, but I'm not trying to say that Germany is a Kafkaesque hellhole. I love Germany. Simply this - there is no 'good faith' defense when breaking rules in Germany. It's thought that Franklin Roosevelt's view of Germany and Germans' nature was affected by his being, as a young visitor, arrested four times in one day in the Black Forest (https://archive.org/details/rooseveltinretro00gunt/page/170/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/rooseveltinretro00gunt/page/170/...).