In another post you refer to how adding the word "on" to "police patrol" changes the meaning. Well here you words, and what they really mean, are incongruous.
If I am driving down a road in a nearby town, and see a cop pulling over someone, I know that I can now drive whatever speed I want, because they only have one cop. Yet I don't. Neither does anyone else. I could drive 100MPH, or 130MPH (don't think my car would go faster than that), and would have zero chance of being caught by anyone who could do anything about it. Since your argument will be that I know I could get in trouble because someone could report me, that still isn't true. If the speed limit is 30, and I see the cop, I am likely to do 40 to 50, but no more than that because the road isn't safe above 50MPH.
So the statement that people would go as fast as they think they can get away with is not accurate.
Conflict of Interest 3180You just did. You simply don't realize it. Your example shows they are. You like an authoritarian environment where rules are rules because someone said so. That doesn't make one selfish for...
What you may have meant is that they will go faster knowing they can get away with more.
In any case, the point is that the speed they will go is affected by their judgement of how fast they can go safely.
