Laws are necessary to prevent chaos.
This is one of the best reasons be used to enforce a jail time for driving 56 in a 55. It is through our legal system, no matter how imperfect, that peace is continued. The upholding of the laws is the responsibility of all. It is through the acceptance of little infractions that lead to total chaos
There is something referred to as "grey area" in which we must make our own decisions.
Being that I am constantly in the building codes I think of gray being something that has already been used and is contaminated.
It is easy for someone that abides by the law seeing someone that breaks the law using the phrase “gray area†as an excuse.
Everyone has different grey areas and yours would be the most restrictive of anyone I have ever met. It's not a bad thing...just different. It take people like you and me to balance things out. Too many me's and we would shift towared chaos. Too many you's and we would become a cult of humans blindly following the authoritarian rule.
I can’t see anything that either of us have said as being a “grey areas†What I can see is that the nation today has moved more into chaos. As a child growing up I was allowed to walk five miles to catch a bus and ride to town every Saturday. I was the father of two children before I lived in a house with door locks.
Could I leave my house today and be gone for a week with no locks on the door? Would you let your children travel 25 miles one way and spend all day in town by their selves today?
If you have ever read about those cults that somehow convince people to take their own lives you will find that the first step is to remove ALL decisions that "normal" people would have to make. Once you start trusting someone else to make all of your decisions your brain turns to mush and accepts anything it is told.
I see that you have never been in the military. Yes I would give my life to protect my way of living and I bet that you would also.
I find that most people that think of their self as being “normal†really mean that they have become complicit. They are the same people that change lanes without looking and speed through a caution light.
The type of person that would not say anything if given back to much money without though of the person getting short changed but would do everything short of being arrested if they are shorted on change.
Not saying that this is either one of us, as you said, “Too many me's and we would shift towared chaos. Too many you's and we would become a cult.â€
It seems that you think us to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. If I am on the legal end of this to the point of being a cult, where did you say you fit in?
Well, using THAT logic, the reason your son or daughter does it is because you did it. PART of the reason is because that's the way his parents taught him (by example) but there are other influences in his life. There always will be.
Yes I did the same thing in front of my children as they did in front of theirs. Knowing the mistakes that my children are making with my Grandchildren as well as my Great Grandchildren came from experience. The one good thing is that my children are smart enough to listen to the wisdom of years gone by. Together we will break the cycle of monkey see monkey do.
They are listening as well as I explain to them the battles I faced with unsavory influences. As long as we can continue to learn from each other I don’t believe that unsavory influences will stand much of a chance to come between us. The one thing that will open the door to allow other influences to sway the thinking of my offspring is for me to start telling what their problems are instead of listening to them tell which problem they think has priority.
You will be on one extreme end trying to teach him. He will no doubt run into some unsavory characters in his youth on the other end of the spectrum that will try to teach him to lie, cheat and steal. HOPEFULLY he will make good decisions and end up in a healthy middle ground.
If I have been good enough of an example for them I think that they can see which is the correct choice and which will lead down the road to chaos.
It the box is 18 cubit inches then to fill it to 18.5 would be wrong. To drive 40 in a 35 MPH speed zone would be wrong as well as life threating to those who abide by the law.