<Rant> Where has courtesy gone?

[diaglo]

of course generalizations that those areas are more polite are ok... only counter generalizations about the generalized drawbacks of the areas (both of which I have personal experience with) are bad.

And please take your passive agressive hostility somewhere else, a comment I will not dress up in cutsy "I could say but won't" BS.

i said the same thing to Queen_D. but our banter was a bit more civilized.

 

[Eridanis]

How ironic that a thread about courtesy has headed for angry fisticuffs. Away from each others' throats, please.

 

[Rel]

EDIT:

Sorry, Eridanis. I shouldn't have responded the way I did.

 

[WayneLigon]

I had an interesting experience this morning driving in to work. I work downtown, which has many one-way streets. Out-of-towners are generally very confused by it. The main way into the heart of downtown is a four lane road. At one point it becomes a two lane road, where both rightmost and leftmost lanes must turn. The man in the leftmost lane apparently does not beleive this and starts to drift into my lane when he should be turning. I slow, and WHAM! I get rear-ended because it's morning rush-hour traffic and nothing had better slow down. No-left-turn-guy travels on... and pulls over as soon as he can.

I get out and check. No damage. None. It wasn't a 5mph lick, but there is no damage to either car. There's a cop right there, so we all shake on it, tell him we don't want to report, and go our seperate ways. No-left-turn-guy, a young out-of-town airman just into the area, profusely apologizes to both of us, even though he wasn't involved and could have just gone off and left with no consequence.

 

[JoeGKushner]

How can common curtesy compete with the internet?

How can it compete with instant messaging?

How can it compete with the sense of entitlement the typical American has?

Sad to say, that it can't.

We don't correct bad spelling on the net because it woudl take time.

We're not polite, but direct because it's time saving.

Lose of courtesy if a byproduct of an internet age.

 

[Voadam]

We don't correct bad spelling on the net because it woudl take time.

You spelled "would" incorrectly, sir.

 

[BlackSilver]

And please take your passive agressive hostility somewhere else, a comment I will not dress up in cutsy "I could say but won't" BS.

There is no aggression here. If I wanted to jump all over you I would, but I am not. THis thread was started by a guy that was interested in talking about somethings that really bothered him. People that cut in line, or people that didn't say thank you, hold a door for a woman with her baby in a carriage. Things like that.

I am not sure if you are being aggressive because you think others are taking this as a PC thing, or that you really believe that there is no place for polite people in the world today, or if you are (I do not mean this as an insult, but more of an observation) just being a jerk (are you trying to get a flame war started?). I don't know, truly I don't. I can't see you, and I can't read your mind.

It is my feeling that if you treat people better then they treat you, then they will learn from that behavior and start treating others better. It is the Karmic Wheel; what goes around comes around.

My Sensai (my first one) told me and old motherly saying- 'if you have nothing good to say then say nothing at all,' lately I have forgotten that. We spoke recently, he saw some of the threads I have been involved in and some of the things I have written and reminded me of that tid bit.

 

[Crothian]

Lose of courtesy if a byproduct of an internet age.

Nope, just sheer laziness and apathy

 

[reveal]

Nope, just sheer laziness and apathy

Meh. Whatever.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Nope, just sheer laziness and apathy

How do laziness and apathy spread?

If I don't have to correct my spelling on the internet, if I can be rude to people, and there are no consequences...

Well, perhaps that's another, bigger part of it.

There are generally no consequences for rude behaviour. Parents are not allowed to discipline their children as they used to. I'm not saying children should be beat once a day and twice on Sunday, but even the fear of being punished is not valid as children as smart enough to know that in most cases it's not going to happen.

Broad statement, but then we could talk about parents working two jobs, or not being home, or being too young to have children, or having a society where it's "cool" to be rude or a rebel, etc....