Don’t you dare cross the road when the light is read you criminal

It’s all a question of perspective I guess.
A German friend of mine once told me.  He said: One has to respect others, no doubt about that. And, without two shadows of a doubt, the rules are there to punish those who, when exercising their right to have rights, go too far and step upon someone’s garden, or nose, or pride.

There is this law somewhere, I can’t remember where, so somewhere, where you can cross the road even if the light is red. You can do so if there are no cars and you consider that your crossing the road does not imply any danger for your world buddies. A great claim for anarchy and proof of self-judgement I think, but is that not way too subjective? Like do Spaniards, for example, know exactly when there is no danger at all? Imagine you’ve already waited for two minutes and the light is still red. And, of course, you cannot wait anymore because you need to run. Otherwise you’d be poisoning today’s nourishing breast and you wouldn’t deserve to live. Run, run, run. Produce, be useful. So, back to the point, you don’t see any cars and you go. But a car driver who was actually coming and who didn’t expect you to be crossing the road and didn’t even check because it was green for him needs to live with a dirtied conscience for a long long time bacause of you. Spain, worst-case scenario.

Now the other side of the ball. Oh I forgot balls don’t have sides. Well imagine you can see properly. And cars can come from only one way, or even from both, but you have plenty of time and space to see whether a car’s coming. And you wait, and wait, and wait. And there is obviously no danger of crossing even if it’s red. But, of course, don’t you dare cross the road if it’s red, because there certainly is ONE danger. That someone is waiting bored of not having to do something better out of their lives and you get a fine. And, of course, you are treated as the worst criminal on earth for not having respected others’ rights. Supposing, of course, that some other’s rights are being endangered. Germany, worst-case scenario.

Oh well I guess if one compares both worst-case scenarios the latter is obviously far better. And yet, I feel that the exaggeration of rule-making and accepting without questioning does not bring us any more humanity or tolerance or respect toward the other but rather sheepness (if the word exists, if it doesn’t, I’ll apologize for my daring attitude and will try to be a better citizen, promise). Like you can drive someone over with your bike and still feel OK because oh well she was walking on the space reserved for bikes so it’s her fault she’s not respecting the rules. Too many rules and too little questioning I think, and yes this is a claim for common sense.