One thing I’ve learned over the years is that many people perceive:

- themselves as perfect but making the odd honest mistake every now and then

- others as fundamentally flawed, persistent rule-breakers who Need To Be Punished

Even if they’re broadly the same or worse. This is true on the road, in college or writing code. A lot of people will be unable to look at their own tiny little infractions and see them as equivalent to the flagrant disregard for the rules that they observe in others.