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Butaperson
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Alright so here’s the situation. Every day after school, I walk to the bus stop. It’s a very short walk, just one block. On the right hand side of the road which is adjacent to my school, there is a sidewalk for most of the walk but a short portion where the sidewalk disappears and I have to walk on the side of the road (or else on somebody’s driveway). The sidewalk then starts back up again further down. If I were to take the left hand side of the road, there would be a sidewalk all the way down, but I would have to cross the street five different times (once to get over, three times on the way down, and once to get back over) within a 3 minute walk. All of these street crossings are crosswalk or traffic light protected, so I guess technically I’m legally obligated to walk on the left hand side of the road (unless I’ve been receiving misinformation, which is very possible). Realistically though, any minute amount of danger that I could face walking for 100 feet in a school district to the far right of the roadway has got to be less than crossing the street five different times to get one block down the road. Is there any moral obligation to do that because of the law, though?