I’ve been on this planet long enough to learn a few things.  IveI learned that the definition used to determine if something is alive is to see if it responds to stimuli.  That is to look for responses from a subject when it receives an interaction.

For example, interactivley poke a bear with a stick, the bear turns out to be alive, you get mauled or eaten by said bear.   Proof of Life…and potentially, your death.

Notice in this example, the bear didn’t run to a safe space or get offended, start trash talking the stick wielding annoyance or call other bears to help.  It just took care of business.  Destroy the source of irritation.

What if the bear had responded differently and just politely ignored the source of poking with the stick?  I think the occurance would go on over time and the testing would have continued.  To the eventual response that stops the poking event.  Destroy the source of  negative stimuli.

In life we get two basic types of stimuli.  Negative or positive.  How we respond is dependent on the type of  stimuli we receive.

What about the individual doing the poking at the bear with the stick?  At first, the bear simply moved and the reward to the poker was that the bear moved.  Eventually the response became negative and the poker quickly learned NOT to go poking at bears with sticks.

There are far too many people out there whine about being offended and using their feelings as a source of manipulation of those around them.  They don’t want to be or learn about what has been considered for a very long time as polite social interaction.  They have not been taught how to be polite and that’s the fault of the previous generation.  The previous generations were affraid of hurting the feelings of the now seruously socially uneducated masses.

It’s time to educate them before it’s too late.  I think that given enough negative stimuli for bad behavior backed with mild direction on what works is the last available option.

Case and point.

The wife and I needed a seat on the fast ferry. The one woman blocking the isle refused to get out of her seat and let us in. Instead she just turned sideways but really didn’t make any space for us to get by.
I clearly made two more polite verbal requests for her to actually stand up so we could get in.
She ignored me. I’m a bigger guy and used to have more patience with people. Now I’ve become less tolerant of rude behavior.

I have decided that people like that continue to act the way they do because they “get away” with it. Kind of like getting rewards for being rude.

We patient people have been too often too concerned about offending those around us who act this way.
I’ve lost that concern.

Back to the lazy rude seat hog.
She wouldn’t move so she received two negative stimuli, a backpack across the head and a face full of ass…my backpack and my ass. Much less of a reward for bad behavior and more of a punishment… I didn’t care and once I sat down. I said maybe next time you should get up.

It should be noted, I offered direction on what would be considered polite…more than once.  When the incorrect response was given, I delivered a negative stimuli followed by another explanation of why the negative response.

Without order, rules and courtesy, comes chaos.  It’s time to restore order and courtesy by whatever means required.  STOP POKING THE BEARS WITH STICKS OF RUDENESS!