Why do you think people don't obey the law?

matt_mattuk

mainly because people are so wrapped up in their own lives and consider what they are doing so important that they fool themselves into thinking what they are doing is justified.

IloveMarmite

Because the punishment is soooo Lame !!!

spikycacti

because some people believe (rightly or wrongly) that the law is there to cause hinderance in their lives.
It also depends on what laws are being broken, where i live there in a by-law that states i can't graze my goat in a local park. especially relevent as i live in a high rise in the middle of a city. I've thought about getting a goat just to see if this law would be enforced!

Mary Smith

because they think they are above the law

Wood77

Some laws are starting to go to far defining what freedoms other think you should have.

Smudgeward

Free will, to obey everything is not to have it.

angel

If something is forbidden or there boundaries, it's human nature to be tempted to do the opposite and disobey.

northy

Because half the time the general public are unaware of all the laws that exsist!That gives government and the police to full advantage to line their own pockets,thats except for scumbags such as murderers,theives,rapists etc who deserve alot more than they get these days

Leogirl0804

There are many reasons. One is that they have no respect for the law (as in the case of Illegals) and others do it for the rush they get.

kitty fresh & hissin' crew

For small infractions, like speeding, I think it is a matter of convenience and probability of not getting caught. For the hard stuff I think it is greed and mental illness.

razzyrascal

Because punishment isn't tough enough ... I think if we went back to the days of "an eye for an eye" crime would be on the downslide...

Losing a hand for theft? wow

fiat_knox

Selfishness; envy; dissatisfaction with their wretched lot, an inability to pin blame for their lousy lives upon themselves.

There's sometimes an element of peer pressure involved, also, forcing innocent children into doing the sort of things they'll regret for the rest of their lives. Once they start their criminal lives and get tempted to do more, there's no stopping them, and nobody to pull them out of hell.

And then there are some who believe that the Law is right; the Law is just; but it only applies to /others/. Not to themselves, because for whatever reason, /they/ have been brought up right, and the others, that crowd from next door, are tramps and scum.

To these people, their neighbour isn't theirs - their neighbour is the neighbour of the chap two doors down. Nothing to do with /them/ at all.

Finally, there is of course the Bandwagon. Some politician reads the newspapers, sees an outrage in the headlines, and presses for the Government to Do Something. So The Government Does Something, and suddenly there's an absurd new law, and the newspaper proprietor, a Charles Foster Kane wannabe, sits back and chuckles at his successful experiment in social engineering.

There are many reasons why people break the law, in truth. But they all stem from one simple observation: that many people are just plain horrible.

Sir Sidney Snot

Some laws are a joke thats why

alanninn

IF YOUR IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE AND YOU CAN SEE FOR A MILE IN EVERY DIRECTION WOULD YOU STOP AT THE STOP SIGN ! NO YOU SLOW DOWN MAKE SURE AND SLOWLY ROLL THROUGH IT! DO YOU ALWAYS USE THE CROSS WALKS? OR DO YOU CUT CORNERS? WE DO IT JUST BECAUSE!

speedball182

Self justification.
-If your speeding at 3.00am there will be less traffic and pedestrians on the road so the speed limit â€˜shouldâ€™ be higher to account for the lower risks involved.
-If I was 20yrs old, has smoked since I was 16 and been drinking since 18, why should I not be allowed to smoke or drink when I go on holiday to the US?

Thunderblade

Most people way up the cost of getting caught, against the benefit of committing the crime. In our far too lenient society, there is often a perception of the crime being more favourable than its legal option; and worth the potential penalty.

shirazzza

Some laws are so stupid they should be ignored. The big stuff tho - I dunno, they're freaks?

caps_harper

primarily because of a thing called peer pressure...

danny s

there are some sick and twisted minds out there...

leavemealonestalker

Because they believe there is a subsection with a clause with some fine print that names them as being specifically exempt from said law. This is very common with traffic laws. stop signs, for example, are meant for "other people". So these special people just go tearing through town, and what appears to some as a "breaking of the law" is really just a specific person exercising their privileges. Those who get in the way of these people are the real criminals.

Judy the Wench

Cause it isn't practical. I think the most common law broken is speeding on the higway.....hell I broke that law this morning getting to the ariport.....so way do we speed......because we just go at the pace of everyone else. If that is the pace of traffic then that should be the speed limit. Whether its 65 or 85......

the laws are not always fair. And some people are stupid. Other reasons are people got to do what the got to do even if that means breaking the law.

cory g

cause they wanna speed get drunk and high for that mater

mr_mumbles_nyc

For yucks, mostly.

Also, women dig a bad boy.

MOVING

I think Laws were meant to be broken, otherwise they wouldn't make them. I think they don't obey them because of ingnorance and stupidity.

Joey K

Because there are so many of them, and a lot of them are against human nature. It's fun to speed, it's easier to steal, and who doesn't want to jump on a hotty's *** on the jogging trail?

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