Selective enforcement and the culture of entitlement

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Over the last 20 years or so that I’ve spent writing about cars, traffic and transportation, one of the most asked questions I get is: “If you were in charge or our roads, what laws would you make to improve traffic?” MBOpinions READ:

My simple answer is: None. We have enough laws. Too many, actually. Yes there are some archa-ic ones that can be scrapped and some new relevant ones that could be introduced, but that won’t make the slightest bit of difference until we address the elephants in the room: Selective enforcement, lack of proper education and the culture of entitlement. There’s no point even try-ing to pretend that we can legislate our way out of this mess while these double standards exist.

Then you have the jeeps/tricycles/pedicabs etc., that are seen blatantly breaking the law, but somehow manage to activate another mysterious super power that always seems to render them invisible to enforcers and unaccountable to other road users. And that super power is called the tyranny of the weak.

By doing so, it would mean that I have shifted the responsibility of my commitment to someone else, and my excuse is that I am too “weak” to write it. Much like how, say, a kamote driver scratches his head after damaging your car because he was driving on the wrong side, drunk, without a license, and then offers to solve the problem by saying “Pasensiya na lang po. Naghahanap buhay lang po.”

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

 

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