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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e269aa7$0$2490$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Educating people about alternatives to the car. Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:06:47 +0100 References:    <4e268acb$0$2540$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <28eb0310-3100-4070-b429-127c514743fa@t5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <28eb0310-3100-4070-b429-127c514743fa@t5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 06d215ef.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=FCmY]I[RD@boe On Jul 20, 8:59 am, Nuxx Bar  wrote: > > and that's not including the >> unofficial taxation raised through speed cameras and parking penalty >> charges).- > > Funny that I never pay these "unofficial taxes". > That might be due to the fact that I don't break the law and thus do > not have to pay these "taxes".

Tell me, how often do people who know you in "real life" refer to you as "sanctimonious", "self-righteous", "goody-goody" or similar?

If you want to blindly obey laws, without thinking about why they're there and whether there's any good reason for them applying in that particular instance, then that's up to you. But some of us just can't help thinking that stopping on double yellow lines for 10 seconds at 3am on a deserted road is not contravening the original purpose, or the spirit, of the law, and that being "fined" £130 for that is taking the piss, and is not being done for any reason but revenue-raising and discouraging motoring.

But hey, if you want to be robotic and unthinking about it, then go right ahead. Tell me, are there *any* laws which you disagree with? Do you ever think about the purpose behind laws, whether they're necessary, etc, or do you just assume that they're automatically perfectly conceived and created and enforced for all the right reasons?