Quote Originally Posted by honeybee View Post
It's this mentality that's hurting India as a nation the most. People almost seem to think that the laws are meant to be broken. Why can't we determine that we shall follow the laws instead of trying to see how to break them? There are so many simple ones which don't cost you a dime to follow: Never cross the railway tracks, always follow the traffic signals, do not spit or litter in public places. Do you think if you followed these laws, people would kill you?

Saturday I was watching the epic Gandhi on TV. What amazes me is the determination of the person to fight back without resorting to any violent means. If he could do that in the oppressive British regime, how difficult is it to do it today?

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That's just an ideal speak. You can do that only if you have ample of time to spare, which unfortunately you won't have in this fast moving world.

In a city where there is a red light every 100 meters or so, if you stop at every red light, plus also bear the traffic jams every now and then, you will either have to leave from home too early or face the wrath of your bosses. If you are late a couple of days in a go you may even be fired from job. Your boss won't accept your ideals calling them "lame excuses".

Let's take an ideal situation where your office is 10 km from your home and there is a red light every 100m, or traffic jam, and you spend 2 minutes on each red light/jam. You will have to spend about 3 hours just waiting on red lights, + 1 hour traveling. So you will have to leave 4 hrs early from home to ensure you reach the office on time in worst cases. That makes it approximately 8 hours just traveling to and fro from home to office & back.

Now there are two ways to it:
1. Teach everyone that they should stop on all red lights and all the ideals related to it.
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2. Change yourself and do how they are doing (which don't match the ideals). Just as they say: "Do in Rome as Romans do".

Which one do you think you would be able to do?