My View On Jaywalking

Lately I’ve been getting irritated at how casually people treat small crimes. Things like jaywalking or ignoring basic rules everyone else is following. I’m going to try to explain why it bothers me so much.

When someone just strolls across the street against the light, frustation arises. It’s not about the law itself it’s that it creates this atmosphere of disorder(see: Broken Windows Theory) . I don’t like how normal it is. People break tiny rules constantly, and everyone just shrugs like it’s nothing. I wish people cared a little more.

What gets to me isn’t the act itself, but the attitude behind it. There’s this unspoken

nn“I’m crossing now because my time matters more than everyone else’s.”

It's selfish and despicable. People are acting in their own little bubbles, separating themselves, and the rest of us are just obstacles. The truth is that we are all the same. When individuals treat the collective environment as secondary to their immediate impulses, it signals a subtle kind of indifference a shrinking of one’s moral horizon until only the ego remains. Yet we are all the same: equally dependent on predictable patterns, equally vulnerable to the choices of others, equally obligated to maintain the conditions that make coexistence possible. The illusion of separation will only create disorder.

I think I just want a world where people slow down for two seconds and remember that their choices actually shape the space we all move through. The punishment for all crimes should be instant execution, by accepting even minor crimes, we show tolerance for criminals and blatant disregard for justice.