I am both a rules follower and a changer of rules. I will follow the rules of the land because I feel that it is the right thing to do (in most cases). When I feel that the rules are not justified, I don’t merely break them. I feel that it’s important to fight so that the rules are changed for everyone.
We create a just society because we make laws and enforce them so that everyone follows them. When some people make excuses or bend the rules, it does nothing to further the fine-tuning of those laws, and therefore does nothing to improve society.
Smoking pot in your basement is fine. But pot should be legal for everyone. We should be active in legalizing it.
And not to pick on you, Coloma, but….
@Coloma: “I don’t use my turn signal if no one is behind me, what’s the point?”
The point is, there could be someone behind you or anywhere and you just don’t see him/her. It’s a good law precisely because it takes the “I didn’t see her” element out of it.
To summarize, I feel that it is to the benefit of everyone if we all obey the laws – unless we are actively trying to change them.
Oh, and when I was a kid, I had an ethics that was immature and void of any consistency. I broke many laws/rules.
[hey, look at that. I think this was my first post in months. What gives?]