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Originally Posted by jbjb
Agreed - this does seem to bring out the worst in people.
All too many seem to feel that a complete absence of technical understanding of the technologies involved, coupled with a skewed sense of their own statistical relevance ("I left my cellphone on once, and the plane didn't crash, so it must be OK") allows them to ignore, for their own convenience, a rule created by people with at least some level of understanding.
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There is a large segment of the population that just refuses to believe that any rules could apply to THEM.
I live one house away from an intersection, in residential suburbia. I'd estimate that at least 1/3 of the drivers on any given day do not even so much as slow down before going through that stop sign, even though it was there before most of them were even born. The cops just love to park on the lesser traveled street, at the end of the month, to quickly get their quota of traffic tickets.