why will you not ovey the rules ?
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It is only in rare cases that people disobey a rule out of honest civil disobedience where the rule violates conscience. The rules that people choose not to follow are reasonable and fair rules and there are four reasons people disobey them.
1). The rules are inconvenient.
2). People who know better break them because they lack self-discipline.
3). They are secure in the belief that they will circumvent suffering any consequences because either they perceive that no one who can enforce the rules is watching or the consequences are not immediate enough to provide incentive to follow a rule they dislike.
4). Because they are primarily controlled by their external environment there is no internal decision to obey a rule they know they should obey when in the external environment everybody else is breaking a rule; they succumb to Dr. Zimbardo’s Lucifer Effect.
5). They have an exaggerated level of confidence that their competence, which they can’t objectively measure, is so superior to that of everybody else that they don’t need a rule that the less competent need.
They justify breaking rules by taking recourse to emotional feelings rather than rigorous reasoning. Examples of these emotional feelings that rationalize the choice to disregard a legitimate rule include but are not limited to: “This rule is unfair because I subjectively feel that it imposes a hardship that I don’t like to accept even though years ago I committed myself to obeying a set of rules that include the rule I don’t feel like obeying,” “I’ve been bending this rule for years and getting away with it so what’s the big deal?” The few times they get caught, “It’s unfair and unreasonable that I got a traffic ticket for going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit; the police are picking on me because they have nothing better to do.” or “I almost always get away with it,” and in the case of the Lucifer Effect, “The speed limits are unfair because nobody obeys them,” and “I can pilot that aircraft after a few more drinks than is legal because I can better handle the effects of alcohol and I know my limits.”
It is possible that because rule breaking is a combination of external influence and a weakness of internal reasoning that many autistic people who cannot connect to the excessively emotional and less logical social environment around them are less susceptible to influences to break unpopular rules. They have to live by internal self-discipline that the world around them does not offer.