satcom said:
How about when a sport event is played we throw out the rules we don't like, when the opposing team brings in a home run we slam him with a bat, after all it 's only a game. It appears we take rules of a sport more serious, then how we conduct our own affairs.
There are no absolutes. Part of the deal with rules is that you are at liberty to break them at your own discretion. You just have to accept the consequences if you get caught.
How many times have you seen a DB grab a receiver to prevent a touchdown? It happens in nearly every game. The DB gets penalized for it, but he avoids the other team scoring against him. He has accepted that the penalty for breaking the rule (if he gets caught) is less offensive than the consequences of not breaking the rule.
When we incur a debt, we agree to the repayment rules. Can anyone here state honestly that they have paid every bill on time?
Some rules are meant to be broken by the very people that created them. Most of the time speed limits are set to generate a certain amount of revenue. If people did not violate the speed limit, that revenue would be lost. No one really believes that
most speeders are a threat to anyone else. For practical purposes, speeding tickets are essentially a license to speed granted randomly and in a capricious manner.