It pushes you to want to be a better person, more polite, more cultural empathetic, nicer to strangers, and it makes you actually want to stop jaywalking.
It's kind of like, I imagine if the Trump administration were to accuse somebody of jaywalking in Bangor, and they decide to like launch a nuclear missile at the entire state.
Driving past, my dad used to roll his eyes at the flocks of students haplessly jaywalking across Ellis Avenue, wondering how it was that such smart people had never learned to properly cross a street.