A posted speed limit carries the threat of enforcement by the police. If it didn't, it wouldn't qualify as a law.
You see, if the speed limits were more like beneficial suggestions & were not enforced, one would follow the speed limit ONLY IF one desired traffic safety. One would follow the suggestions as a means to avoid an increased number of accidents, but the speed limit would not carry a sanction (a physical or psychological means of coercion or intimidation used for the purpose of motivating obedience to a principle of action).
If one observes the speed limit because one wishes to avoid getting a ticket, one is responding to the speed limit as a RULE. Regardless of whether one desires the goal of traffic safety, one will still obey the limit from fear of the sanction placed upon it.
Is following Biblical "morality" kind of the same? Do people follow the rules more because they fear being punished for disobedience rather than out of a genuine desire to actually be moral?
2007-04-07
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