We were coming to a red light, and he shoots right through it. I ask him, “Why’d you do that?” He tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to another red light, and again, he shoots right through it. I ask him, “Why’d you do that?” Again, he tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to a green light, and he SLAMS on the brakes. My heart nearly goes into my throat. I shouted at him, “Why do you do that?!”
He replied, “You never know, my brother could be coming the other way.”"
found it here, but I heard the joke long ago elsewhere
Edit: the point of the joke is you need someway to predict other driver’s actions, and red = stop works good as anything else.
You can live under a written code, which is enforced by fear, which you will need to obey or suffer, though the suffering may not be experienced right away. This applies for laws and things stated in the Old Testament.
Or you can live by Love of others and be exempt from all written codes/laws (the way Jesus shows in the New Testament), as such, however you will respect other people that are still bound by the written code/laws and will not want to encourage them to run red lights because it would cause suffering for them even though you may be exempt.
Loving your neighbor won’t keep him from slamming into you if either he or you runs red lights. I’ve read the entire OT, some of it in Hebrew, and I don’t remember seeing anything about traffic signals. Maybe Moses couldn’t cross the Jordan because the light was stuck on red?
The defense I always used for that was “It was pink when I saw it, officer” (which of course is that transitory moment when yellow and red blended together while the lights changed as I zoomed through the intersection).
