Guilt and Breaking the Rules

SO this incident some time back got me thinking, what's the moral behind breaking the rules? Do these people feel guilt when they so so brashly break them and bother not a bit about who they are hurting in the process? What IS guilt? And the most important point was, [i]I felt kind of guilty in the aftermath...[/i] which led me to thinking, [B]Is there any logic behind following the rules when the general behavior around IS to break the rules?[/B]

So,
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The links only helped confuse me in that they all seem to base guilt on going against a collective opinion based on a feeling of empathy. If that is the case though, it explains why I see so many incidents where I think guilt should be a factor but it is not.

For instance breaking of rules of the road here in India. It's so common and widely practiced and unenforced to a large extent by the police (who themselves can be seen breaking the rules blatantly) that doing so becomes almost a habit in everyone. No one thinks for a second that they are being disorganized and may be inconveniencing others. The traffic is in turbulence and even small errors create quick blocks and traffic jams where no one is willing to back off.

I do have a wondering that makes me think if this actually is as non-optimal as it seems but I'll get back to this later [...]

Now when we have established that there is already no guilt, it's easy to see that moral dilemma is overcome, which means that the edict of the system of rules is inconsequential to a large extent. Now what remains is whether it should matter to me or not.

Another example that I can cite in related subject is that of bribery. This is rampant at low and high levels in the bureaucracy in this region. One needs to bribe for the most basic needs. For instance water supply. Each area has it's own main tank which provides water on a alternate day basis and each house or apartment complex has it's own underground storage tank where this water is supplied. This is the water that is mostly used as the ground water obtained from digging a bore well is very hard and filled with mud.

Now there is a person assigned to open the valves of this tank and he is to make sure to keep the valves open for a period of time. Now it is up to his discretion how long; so as to have the underground storage tanks of these houses and apartments fill up properly. But the dude makes it a point to not do so until and unless we go and bribe him with a certain amount of money per month.

Point is,
Is it practical to enforce ethics and "moral" values upon oneself when the system is not compliant? Is it important to do so when we are already being hypocrites as we participate in piracy (although it mostly is because we lack the financial means to obtain equivalent material otherwise)?

I have found that doing so is causing an inconvenience to not just me but others too. What I've started doing is trying to find ways of obeying the law where I can while not interfering with the rulebreakers and breaking the law where it is (at least immediately) of a humanitarian interest. It seems to me to be a more practical approach. I do not know how ethically right I am in doing so though. I do not know why I should go out of my way to obey the law but still not hinder others. in any case it's an inconvenience to me because either I feel guilt for breaking the law or I feel guilt for bothering others or I feel frustration for having to look like a fool or anger at people not having civic sense.

Appendix:
On the streamlined nature of traffic and what is an optimal traffic flow. This seems to be of a real interest to me as it involves a great study of social patterns, data mining ect. IF anyone has interesting reads on Traffic flows and how to optimize them I'd love to read them.
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As I had pointed out, I observed traffic jams arising at very sensitive regions with high frequency in a very disorganized yet densely populated region such as here in Indore, India. But apparently (and I do not know much about this) there are very random reasons but similar does happen in the more sophisticated traffic flows like New York and Washington and such areas as well. So we do not know how much worse of this chaotic flow pattern unhindered by regulations is. For all we know it might turn out to be better (I hope not, I hate it because it [I]looks[/I] so inelegant and I've heard so many times that in mathematical systems, inelegance is very much associated with the "bad solution".

In his book, [B]Between Inner Space and Outer Space[/B] (Oxford University Publication), Author John D. Barrow says in an essay about complexity [Chap. 17] about traffic jams where he likens them to hourglasses of sand where as sand is poured on top of the pile in the chaotic fashion it is (like traffic flow) and just like in the sand pile where when it reaches a critical state of height/size then there are avalanches (traffic jams) that help the pile get into it's equilibrium state again. And just like that problem, the problem of why traffic jams are caused is not yet solved (I think...)