Breaking Traffic Rules can kill you!

I still don't understand why people don't understand the fact the Traffic Rules are not for your "convenience", they are to save your lives! I see everyday a total disregard for their own lives and others too. Its as if their motto in life is "I DON'T CARE". I don't care about my life or yours or my family's. 
How else can one explain a bicyclist or a rickshaw puller jumping traffic lights, when all other cars, trucks, bikes are waiting for the lights to turn green!
Almost everyone overtakes from the left! I have experimented this many times by leaving the right lane empty, people (cars, bikes, SUV's) still blare their horns and overtake from my left!!!!!!! My God! Will my surprise ever end?
At this point I remember two quotes which may explain this paradox!
"9 out of 10 people, and 99 out of 100 soldiers are fools"
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death." - Emile M. Cioran
Everyone has the right to die! But suicide is still a crime! BEHAVE!

I think people behave in traffic the same way they behave while moving about in other situations, like walking! About 2 weeks ago an accident happenned to me as I held open the lavatory door. As I opened the door to walk out, a colleauge was walking in. He simply brushed me aside as he walked in, bruising my arm in the process, and he was as unconcerned as he would be if he had banged against my car! :( He was a 6 footer, so I let him go, vowing never to hold open a door for any Indian again.... Too bad for this world, but no crime should go unpunished!

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