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A lot of people ignore rules because they figure everyone else is following them - how can it hurt if they bend the rule once in a while? They feel they are the exception to the rule.
As for your students, a lot of them probably feel that the rules are stupid and are there to be broken. That's why you still have cell phones going off. Unless their punishment is severe enough, they're not going to bother paying attention. What happens if they break the rule? Detention? Many kids couldn't care less.
You mentioned the express lane at the supermarket. I try to follow this rule. If I have 12 items and it's 10 items or less, I get into the express lane. If somebody were to call me on it, I would be more than willing to apologize and move to another line. I just wind up thinking, "it's only two items, what's the big deal." The big deal is that it adds up when ALL of us do it, but I still don't really care and feel like I'm exempted, somehow, from the rule. But again, it's not like I bring 50 items into that lane.
On TFP I think a lot of people don't deliberately disobey the rules. I just don't think they bother to pay attention to them in the first place. The first story I posted, I just posted a link without text. I'm sure that was listed in some rule that I just didn't bother to read at some point.
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