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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If I am asked by a fellow passanger or a Flight Attendent directly, I put away my e-reader and memorize the silly Skymall crap. If I were to refuse to do so I could be removed from the plane and potentially charged with a crime.
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Skymall has some pretty cool stuff, and the prices are not all that bad.
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No one is saying that anarcy should reign, just that there are very few people who follow every law and rule to the T. There are some that are commonly broken, traffic rules are the best example
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Part of it is a matter of attitude and approach. When my young son points out I'm speeding, I tell him he's right, going the speed limit would be safer, and it would save gas, and I wouldn't want to get a ticket in any case. And I'll most likely slow down. I might offer some justification about the safety of going with the speed of traffic, but I'll slow down (at least until his attention is elsewhere).
It would not occur to me to trumpet how proud and noble a free thinker I am for bravely disregarding the speed laws and how he should learn from my example.
I don't mean that it's OK to do it as long as you act like you're sorry about it, I just mean that the attitude is it's own issue, and may be a more important element the rule involved.
Here's another example:
A cop kills a murderer who was holding a gun to a hostage's head.
What attitude do you want in the cop?
"Any death is a tragedy, but I know I did what I had to do to save an innocent life."
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"Yeah, baby, I got to kill a bad guy today, woo hoo!"