Why are people obeying rules when the reason for the rule is invalid and there is no enforcement?
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Also increasingly overladen with pointless rules and custodians with real power to sanction "not compliant" individuals.
The specific example of red lights will get you fined >10% of an average person's salary around here.
Utterly absurd, but it scares people.
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It's obvious that there are larger social forces at work here. Interestingly, this phenomenon is almost nonexistent in Norway.
I'm guessing it has something to do with mass inequality/poverty. It makes people paranoid on one end, dangerous on the other.
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we don't have that here, and people obey anyway. But yeah, that's ridiculous.
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