Everyone gets stopped at red lights

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Great point.

This could be added as a warning.

Eventually, if you don't stop at a red light, something's gonna happen and it's probably not good.

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Alright, you win. You get to start the book deal. Haha

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If you learn the timings, and choose the right route, you can hit green lights all night. Back when I had a job which finished up around 2am, I managed to travel ~15km across the city without hitting a red light, probably 2/3 of the time.

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I hear the Europeans just drive around in circles.

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Usually in bigger cities that’s the case. But small towns can be REALLY hit or miss. If there’s traffic sensors they generally do a good job at keeping traffic flowing. But you will know if you’ve hit a light that doesn’t have them, or is purposefully time poorly.

There’s one in my city that is impossible to make unless the second it turns green I gun it. Sometimes I have a second or two to spare. But if there’s ANYONE in the way you will not make that light.

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Since traffic lights are car infrastructure, you don't need them when there are no cars, which is the case in many cities that are walkable and bikable. You don't need a machine to tell you what to do when you're only going 20 km/h.

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some areas near me have lights that will stay green on the main road mostly, but as soon as they see you speeding, they'll turn red and have signs saying so.

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There are too many loop holes to the traffic lights. The jesus freaks would quote the bible about it and say, "The rain falls on the just and unjust alike." Personally I'm a fan of "everybody poops."

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In the most basic of ways, we are all equal.

Everyone you’ve ever known or heard of, from Marie Antoinette to your favourite teacher at school, from Albert Einstein to your grandma to Vladimir Putin, shits.
All blood is red.
“Whether you’re a king or a little street sweeper, sooner or later you’re gonna dance with the reaper “.

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There is a whole community of rabid bicyclists (a subset, I'm not generalizing to all bicyclists) who fervently believe they should be able to ride through red lights if there's no cross traffic because "it's haaaard" when they have to stop.

Also: cops and ambulances can literally rig the system in their favor, which means the impartiality of red lights is questionable. (And, the rigging is probably in most cases for a good cause, but still.)

I like another commentator's post: everybody poops. The people who don't probably - almost uniformly - wish they could, because it they don't it's because of some medical condition they'd trade pooping for in an instant. It's probably not even a silver lining, because they still have to deal with the waste and it's almost certainly more of PITA than just pooping.

Nice shower thought, though, Marcus A. I'm not strong-willed enough to practice stoicism - I can barely manage to be a reliably hedonist - but I do firmly believe and practice the dichotomy of control. It's the only thing keeping me sane since the election.

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That was my comment, I said everyone poops, lol

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'Memento mori'
I had heard the "everyone shits" but all blood is red is much more powerful.

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Oh, you're right, you did. Well, I agree. It's a better metaphor about equality. Everybody pees, and breathes, and uses ATP. But pooping of more funny, so let's go with that.

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I get what you're trying to say. But the truth is, a red light doesn't stop anyone from doing anything. It just tells them that there will be consequences if they choose to do so and get caught.

For the sake of the metaphor that you were going for, we can say that some people know that they'll face no consequences if they're caught. So they feel entitled to not bother stopping. While some people know that, based on previous history, that they'll be stopped even if they just managed to squeak through while the light was still yellow.

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I would posit that it could be based on something else entirely, a civic or moral obligation a person feels to abide by the spirit of the law to help protect fellow people, even if they would not be punished or could some how gain something - in this case, a finite resource - time, for violating the law.

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This is objectively not true. Cops, paramedics and people who feel like breaking the all go through red lights. I get where you're coming from but you're trying a bit too hard