# Disrepect for Minor laws= Disregard of major laws?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disrepect-for-minor-laws-disregard-of-major-laws/382498>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 1, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disrepect-for-minor-laws-disregard-of-major-laws/382498 "2006-12-01T18:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disrepect-for-minor-laws-disregard-of-major-laws/382498/21 "2006-12-02T14:34:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Marley23]  
The link gives a different explanation - although I can easily imagine Rudy using that logic.  
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I’m not sure that Giuliani used that logic, I just had a memory that he’d done something like that and found the link.

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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disrepect-for-minor-laws-disregard-of-major-laws/382498/22 "2006-12-02T17:31:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Walter Windchill]  
I have no idea what this means. Traffic laws aren’t really instituted by control freaks. They’re necessary just to have a way to get around without a lot of carnage. Or is this supposed to reflect the mindset of stupid people who cross against the light?  
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That particular statement was in response to the second part of the OP:

[QUOTE=ralph124c]  
I have always believed that Americans are hypocritical-we pass laws against all kinds of activities, that most people regard as permissible. We spend billions persecuting people for using marijuana, yet ignore the societal consequences of gross disrespect for fundamental human decency. In sum: why pass laws that people have no intention of obeying?  
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**Author:** ![Renob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Renob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renob)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disrepect-for-minor-laws-disregard-of-major-laws/382498/23 "2006-12-02T17:40:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Walter Windchill]  
This would be a sound statement if a lot of this activity wasn’t blatantly in the way of traffic, which is probably more what the OP was getting at. We’re not talking about people looking both ways and saying, what the hell. We’re talking about dumb people just toddling out in front of moving cars.  
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If that’s the case, then I’m all in favor of natural selection taking its toll.

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