Reply #14: Europe of many cultures [View All]

[aneerkoinos]

...and in the southern ones, "law-abiding" is not the first of virtues. ;)

Myself, having lived both in law-abiding Finland and less abiding Greece, see that there is also lot of good in the anarchistic "wear them out" mentality to Governement legislation - e.g. Greek governement trying to make bars close earlier or ban smoking is parts of restaurants! :D. If the law is not liked, people pretend to follow it for couple weeks, then it is forgotten by popular consensus, which rather abides to unwritten social code. Less law-abiding means many ways more relaxed and tolerant society, live and let live sort of way. And Italy? What to say, it is a nation of thieves... once you learn that and accept it, no problems.