Does a virtuous Buddhist indicate when making a turn and no-one (else) is watching? It’s a question about the balance hetween adhering to law but also not becoming ridiculous about it.
I hope it’s not a ridiculous question.
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I am adding a justification for the validity of this question:
violating a law in principle is suffering related, if not for getting caught by a hiding police officer, then because of moral shame anyway. so the question is about whether getting too pedantic about the law is silly (silliness leading to suffering, I presume.)
For example, a traffic light in the middle of a desert — who would obey it but a fool?
Does signaling with no traffic help to reduce suffering? Is signaling or not signaling when making a turn with no traffic related at all to the Four Noble Truths??