The law is just a tool. It routinely does not permit the optimal choice for neither yourself nor society as a whole. Like other tools, sometimes the best choi

The law is just a tool. It routinely does not permit the optimal choice for neither yourself nor society as a whole. Like other tools, sometimes the best choice is to ignore it. ---------- >The comment you are replying to said nothing about the law. >> Why bother? >Because you're operating heavy machinery that regularly kills people. The context of the quote by globular-toast is from this paragraph: >When driving I follow the spirit of the law, not necessarily the letter. If I'm approaching a stop sign and I can see clearly there are no other vehicles, bikes, people, etc, I slow down to very near a stop, but not a full stop. Why bother? The spirit of the law is to make sure I'm correctly yielding to other vehicles. There's no doubt there was reference to law.