The red light of Americans

Those about foreigners keep out the story in the open crossroads, a red light may be just a legend.

Americans always walks through a red light (of course, I simply refers to walk). They rule is: a car, a red light will not; but if you do without a car (and in some cases, the majority of the pedestrian street is empty) will choose "the red light". -- in a pedestrian oriented countries, the significance of red light is to ensure a minimum vehicle right, rather than an absolute ban on pedestrian "". The connotation of the rules was expanded. Interestingly, this and common law takes a different way of thinking and attention to explore the legal meaning of specific cases agree without prior without previous consultation.

This flexibility is clearly greatly reduce the social cost, but also has the condition -- means that the pedestrian "red light" in fact is a part of the "rules", and "rules" requirements can in no case of car running, which limits and to avoid the heavy traffic pedestrian speculation, resulting in and vehicle for right of way of chaos. -- "elastic", "flexibility" is simply to social efficiency, rather than let one part person can account for the special cheap. Pedestrians and vehicles must be able to in this on the "flexibility" of the "rules", the discretion and limits carefully guarding their own rights, trust each other each other will abide by the contract.

Man is not born to become law (or "rules") part of the slaves -- the thing itself is the law. But to enjoy the maximum efficiency of freedom, avoid mechanical laws (is actually a misunderstanding of the law and the deviation of) trouble, the premise is must have ingrained "rules" consciousness as social background and background, this is all "flexibility" can bring us happiness and facilitate the premise of basic culture. And this awareness has not fallen down from the sky or tweeter can spread out, he comes from reasonable social system and human to adapt itself.

Inappropriate and associate to drunk driving into the punishment of the debate -- wrong -- has been into the punishment, the argument is now seems to be whether once "drunk" must be criminal punishment? Read and this, only a sigh, this in the theory of criminal law, it should not be a topic of debate. The law is grey, but the tree of life evergreen, legal interpretation to the law, just as water to the plant! Refuse to be explained how the terrorist criminal law.

Problem is, many people's life experience to believe, there is not mentioned as the basis of rule consciousness and mutual trust. So just reflexively rather active request under the mechanical law discipline -- fear explanation about their (or their groups) injustice. As you can not imagine a never be irrigated plants may be thriving, how can you expect in the public the urgent psychological self-protection afraid be interpreted law can become good?

Sometimes, afraid of regular elastic only increased social costs, such as the "red light" this kind of thing. Sometimes, it can be equivalent to quench a thirst with poison!

Red light running -- Chuang, or not?