Simply that the terminally stupid and anti social are vastly outnumbered by those who believe themselves to be basically law abiding and mostly adhering to the rules. We comfort ourselves with the belief that our own slight bending of the rules doesn’t really matter too much. Multiply that bending of rules hundreds of thousand of times and you have a major problem.
It’s much the same with traffic accidents. We like to believe they are mainly caused by the reckless and incompetent drivers but in reality they are usually caused by ordinary people who take a chance when they should not.
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