Ambivalence of drivers

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

It will focus on internal contradictions in the logic of car drivers in relation to traffic police officers. The main contradiction lies in the fact that, on the one hand, drivers want order on the road and call the traffic police to protect their rights in the event of, for example, an accident, and on the other hand, they try to use various ways to "put in place" traffic police officers when they are threatened bringing to responsibility for violation of traffic rules. This contradiction gives rise to many other interesting logical dead ends, from which the mind of an ordinary driver is often unable to get out. For example, a resident of Petrozavodsk got into one of these dead ends, who thought that the phrases “show the order” and “have the right” are magic words that can make any police officer leave the driver alone.

But it was not there. The driver did not expect that the impudence and magic words that he picked up on the Internet alone were not enough to record the next video lesson for cattle-driving. Now let's move on from this example and discuss driver ambivalence in more detail.

Let's talk about winks, for example. Mutual assistance on the road is excellent, excellent, but there is one form of “mutual assistance”, the harmfulness of which very few people understand clearly enough. These are warnings about an "ambush" of traffic police officers, which is made by short winks with the main beam headlights. Look carefully: where will you run in the first place when another moose hits your car due to a violation of speed limits with the subsequent inability to regain control of the car? Who will you cry when a sheep that breaks the rules insolently climbs down the oncoming lane in your face? Who will take your side if some puppy texting while driving crashes your car parked in the parking lot? You will run to the traffic police officers and prove to them your position, you will ask to detain the criminal who will hide from the traffic police station, you will ask for help to establish justice. At the same time, to whom do you wink on the road about the "ambush" of employees? You wink at elk, sheep, and puppies, as well as deer, walkers, pigs and many other animals, thus encouraging their behavior. After all, a normal driver does not need to wink. A normal driver drives correctly, employees will not stop him or, at least, will not give him a fine if the person is not guilty. If a person exceeds the speed limit and does it for some important reason, then he is ready to pay this fine and this is his own business. Some emergencies, such as the life and death of a passenger, are solved just easier if you organize escort with the help of the car of the same employees who stopped you, thinking that you are a malicious intruder who drives you for 150 out of a personal whim. Now think: it is so difficult for the traffic police to expose the violator and punish him fairly because of a number of subtleties in the law, why do you, blinkers, additionally encourage moose? Which you ask then to punish when it comes to your problem. Think …

Let's talk now about communicating with employees. Do you want drunken evil spirits to drive around the city and multiply the probability of an accident in which you may find yourself? Do you want people to behave like cattle on the road? Do you want people to park where they cannot, so that they can go around them for half an hour when there is a large flow in the oncoming lane? No, you don't want that. Then why, on the one hand, do you demand from the authorities to put things in order on the road, and on the other hand, having picked up superficial knowledge about the law, you start to show off in front of the employees, twist your fingers and demonstrate in every possible way that they have no power over you? Maybe you want to return to the 90s, when an employee could easily deprive (detain them) of rights right on the spot without a trial, and then you will not prove anything to anyone? Everything will come to this if every violator behaves like an underdeveloped imbecile.

If you have violated, believe me, an employee (and there are more normal employees, the more normal drivers there are), will first of all be on the side of justice. He can turn a blind eye to a minor violation if you explain that there was no way out (for example, you backed up at an intersection to avoid a very difficult traffic situation - this is normal, this can be explained). If you violated without a good reason or the reason does not outweigh the severity of the violation, then you yourself are to blame - and you must admit it, sign the protocol faster and let the employee continue to work calmly. Traffic police officers want to make the road situation better, and you interfere with them in every possible way with your cheap show-off. Believe me, if the situation starts to get out of control, then they will be given more authority, and then everyone who at least ran into a solid one with the edge of the wheel or made any suspicious movement will fall under the distribution. Will it make you feel better?

Let's talk about the general attitude towards traffic police officers. Although this applies in general to all police officers. How much hatred and idiotic calls are poured on those who give you the opportunity to use a car! Have you ever thought what would be on the road without traffic control? You would be afraid to drive. Those who give you the opportunity to sit in the car, drive and feel quite comfortable on modern roads, you pour mud, because they gave you such an opportunity. Instead of saying “thank you for your work”, you swear, be rude and send them to the forest for the fact that YOUR headlights are not turned on (you are hard to see), that YOU parked like m * duck (although you yourself don’t like such people) that YOU, as the smartest one, drove around the traffic jam at the meeting and stood in front of the first one at the traffic light, although you only scolded the same elk with the traffic light before. Yes, traffic police officers are people too, yes, they are also wrong, but your task is to help them do their job better. What are you doing? Think …

In general, it is becoming fashionable to think now, even over seemingly obvious things.… Shine better with your intellect, aimed at helping to restore order, honor and dignity in this will be much more than in a false victory over an employee on legal grounds.

The above does not exclude that unscrupulous employees need to be put in their place. But this can be done calmly and even politely, observing the law and bringing the matter to the end (up to the dismissal of the employee).

Do you think these are all examples of ambivalence? No, there are many more. For example, the inscription "what kind of power, such are the roads." Most of the drivers deserve these roads and, in fact, I must say thank you that there are at least such. Because with such a bunch of logical contradictions and with such an attitude to life and to power, in principle, you are not supposed to get behind the wheel. Instead of whining, look at yourself and answer a simple question: with what, with what services to the state did you deserve good roads? Your attitude to power is reflected in the way it makes you worth. You passively continue to drive and do nothing to improve the situation on the road. The situation can be remedied by applying much higher order of effort than is required to hang the idiotic sticker. The correct inscription should look differently: “ what kind of people, so is the power". This is another matter.

Think, fellow drivers, think as often as possible and try to think about those things that seemed obvious to you in traffic policy. Everything is much more complicated than you thought before. I tried to cover only the tip of the iceberg, the rest of the work you have to do yourself, starting with yourself.