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There is value in a society that upholds norms even if you don't agree with them, even if nobody is watching. I will wait in a ghost city for a green light, rid
by 3seashells 3y ago
There is value in a society that upholds norms even if you don't agree with them, even if nobody is watching.
I will wait in a ghost city for a green light, ridicule away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_societies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...
- jcynix 3y agoWhile I too agree with norms in general, there is such a thing as common sense. And common sense might tell you that waiting at a lone traffic light in the outskirts of a town in the early morning, sun rising, no car in sight for some hundred meters in each direction, does not add value to society?
- 3seashells 3y agoIt adds reliability, unconscious adherence to rules, a reduction of friction. I don't want people to jdrive in pedestrian only zones, just because nobody is up and about. Chaos is a mental taxation, ditracting from endavour.
- geysersam 3y agoI'd say waiting for the traffic light to turn green when there is no traffic nearby adds friction rather than reduces it.
- Gud 3y agoThere is no chaos to jaywalking because jaywalking should be the default. Only in non-pedestrian cities is jaywalking taxing. I come from a city where people jaywalk(Stockholm). Jaywalking makes the city extremely walkable, and quite frankly I suspect it was designed with jaywalking in mind. It is obvious when someone is not from Stockholm - they wait for the signal. I don't get the ease of jaywalking in many other large cities I've been - Zürich comes close. In the UK, even crossing at a green light feels dangerous.