Among Friends

[Sooner]

People do not obey the laws.  They don't have to.  People have been allowed to think of nothing but their own desires.

People don't respect the standards and values of this country.  People aren't greatful for anything, they are angry because they can't have everything they want.  They are entitled and they will rob and kill to take what they want.  

[Mindy D]

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@KACEE1115 wrote:

For the past two days my family and I were visiting a local amusement park in Hershey Pennsylvania. Unbelievable what some people will do. Jump fences, get angry at the worker, for just doing their job, when being spoken to by the workers totally ignore the instruction and want to do their own thing. And doing this in front of their own children. What are they teaching the children. While we are waiting in line with many others, every excuse is made where they should go ahead. Why do they think they should not wait in line just as we and others are  doing. I saw several instances of this and was stunned

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@KACEE1115 @These people act like this because they learned to do so, either by observation of others in social settings, from their families or from the rearing practices their parents used. Then, they pass pass the same behaviors to their children and society pays the price. You can see the same behaviors by students  at every school across the country and any effort by school employees to put an end to these behaviors is met by objections from the parents of the kids, perpetuating the cycle. Then the behaviors expand to be present in work and social environments and on the internet. It, unfortunately, has become the status quo. 

[Mindy D]

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@Jaspersmom wrote:

I've also witnessed rude and bizarre behavior recently.  It's become acceptable and because we don't know what the crazies will do, it's tolerated.  I was told of a recent story where a restaurant patron was asked to comply with a policy and the patron refused and showed a gun in a waistband holster as a threat.  The patron was a burly guy well over six feet and thought he could intimidate the petite host.  She told him she was just a college student working to save for tuition, so she'd get her manager to talk to him.  Well, the manager was about two or three inches taller than the patron and just as big.  The patron insisted he was right and the manager told him not in this restaurant.  Manager said he had two choices - leave or he'd call the police.  Patron finally left, but what if it hadn't had that outcome?  What was the customer going to do?  Shoot the host?  

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@Jaspersmom @I read about a case in which a cashier asked a man in her line to put on a mask. The man left the store, took a gun out of his car and went back inside and shot and killed the cashier. 

[Drythe]

People feel entitled to do whatever they want.

This seems to have spread to many facets of life.

[stevieb]

Slowly but surely, society is breaking down. For a variety of reasons, the pandemic clearly exacerbated already existing issues around anxiety, anger and entitlement. Add to all the usual stressors of mass society the fact that too many excuses have routinely been promulgated for too many people demonstrating too many instances of bad behavior and quite honestly and quite sadly, there's no going back now. Sorry to say, I don't see civility making a comeback anytime soon.

[kelsey17]

Because of the shaming/diversity  going on  these days.....no one wants to call out and punish those who are commiting a majority of the crimes......so not much will be done sadly

[threecees]

Saw on t.v. how people are flying around these days on electric scooters.

Some going 50 miles per hour, breaking all the rules. Popular in N.Y.C.

People don't care. They get away with it.

Actress Lisa Banes recently died from being hit by one. Terrible

Here is the full Inside Edition story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6ABsvnah0 

[CrazyDaisy]

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@kelsey17 wrote:

Because of the shaming/diversity  going on  these days.....no one wants to call out and punish those who are commiting a majority of the crimes......so not much will be done sadly

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When looters and shoplifting become everyday occurrences with no ramifications why would common courtesy.

[hckynut]

@KACEE1115 

My 1st inclination when I see younger and middle aged adults like this. They more than likely learned it somewhere in the "do as I say, not as I do" environment in which they were raised.

I seldom see that from people with many decades of life behind them. 

hckynut 

[ECBG]

Entitlement and rudeness know no boundaries unfortunately. 😶