>>1715010There will always be people who break the rules, and there will always be others why try to enforce the rules. The general culture of behavior will depend on what the mass of people in the middle tend to do:
In a cohesive, high-trust society, most people will support those who enforce the rules, and might even feel empowered to do so themselves, because they can expect to rely on the support of other people around them. We're all humans, we're all citizens, we're all sharing this space, and we should all be expected to follow the rules.
When society breaks down, most people will still more or less follow the rules themselves, but their attitudes change. They will actually disapprove of rule-enforcers more than they do of rule-breakers. The latter are seen almost as non-human: how can you get angry at a half-naked black man swinging around on the subway, any more than you can get angry at a bear snooping through your trash? You can, however, get angry at a fellow rule-follower, and judge them for being stupid enough to try and intervene, in the same way you would call someone foolish for trying to reason with a bear.
