The Italians have it most right, they appear to believe all laws are advisory and the advice is always for others anyway. Probably why they are such a happy, stylish and prosperous nation.
The Spanish are pretty good too, you won't catch their fishermen throwing over-quota fish back if no-one's watching!
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I've thought for a while there's a N-S split in Europe. The North has this view that laws should be obeyed or there'll be anarchy. And a tendency to use laws as a form of social control. If you don't like the law, work to get it changed but don't break it. And worse than that there's a form of busy-body attitude that means everybody tells each other "you shouldn't do that, it's against the law".
The South takes the view that politicians of all sorts are in the business of making laws so just let them get on with it, but ignore it if it doesn't make sense. And the Police take the same view. And if somebody else breaks one of those stupid laws, just shrug and get on with your own life. Of course this leads to injustices in that laws get applied randomly and selectively.
Gross exaggerations and despite the similarities between the UK, Germany and some of the Scandinavian countries I think there's a little truth in it.
Personally, there are many aspects to life where I wish the politicians (local and national) would just back off and leave us alone to work it out for ourselves. Maybe then we wouldn't be so ready to expect them to do our thinking for us.