Whether folks understand it or not... there is a simple principle of behavior... that has been true as long as humans have lived... in reality it works in the animal and insect kingdom also:
PAIN causes change!
Yes, regardless of whether folks like the way that sounds or feels...
Folks react to pain... or the potential pain (fear of pain)...
By choosing behavior or NOT choosing behavior.
And choices have PRO's and CONs... ALL choices have PROs and CONs...
It is just the way life works.
Yeah... many well meaning folks have tried to change that format...
NONE of them succeeded...
Because it is just human nature to do things certain ways...
And human nature does not change.
IMO the smart person... learns those patterns...
The other person... thinks they can do as they please... without consequences.
Problem is... when those other people cause pain for others...
Something must be done...
Which is why we have laws!
The law is not the boogey man...
Rather the law is there to protect everyone from the bad side of human nature.
We as a society would do a lot better if we followed the laws, rather than rebelling against them!
And it just does not make any sense at all, to have folks that rebel intentionally, contributing to making the laws they break...