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Modern Ethics
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Looks like you are halfway to living my two-component dream: Wyoming+underground bunker.
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A few years back, I broke BOTH ankles while goose hunting. Had to walk a mile back to the car through the snow (No big deal=no other way back). One I knew I broke the other was diagnosed as a tendon tear (it turned out to be broken) and for a year I was on crutches. The number of people who pushed ahead of me or even shoved me out of the way exceeded the people who opened doors for me.
A while back, wife and I were at Home Depot. We wanted to look at bathroom light fixtures. We turned down the row and there was a guy with his cart blocking the whole aisle and chatting (BS'ing) with the salesman. We stood there for several minutes and they looked at us but didn't move. So we backed out, went over two aisles (next one was blocked) and came in from the other end. A couple of minutes, the guy comes up to me and says "Excuse me. Can I get by?" I told him "Do what I had to do and go out and around, bu--head!" Wife got mad but........
A while back, wife and I were at Home Depot. We wanted to look at bathroom light fixtures. We turned down the row and there was a guy with his cart blocking the whole aisle and chatting (BS'ing) with the salesman. We stood there for several minutes and they looked at us but didn't move. So we backed out, went over two aisles (next one was blocked) and came in from the other end. A couple of minutes, the guy comes up to me and says "Excuse me. Can I get by?" I told him "Do what I had to do and go out and around, bu--head!" Wife got mad but........
Certainly not a bunker, but the lawyer who built my place in '80 knew a bit about natural camo.
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"Modern ethics" has become an oxymoron.
The world hasn't changed....
...but here in the U.S. some years ago we had a polite society bent on making sure that we were a 'civilized' country. And people were taught to make way for elders or handicapped, Be polite to adults. Wait your turn, etc. Now I would say that they carried the etiquette thing a little too far, but the basics were an indispensable social skill.
If anybody is taught that now, they reject if to act like what they see on TV
I've always wondered what being in a place where morals are completely ambiguous like in some ancient times. In some societies people were arbitrarily punished for any infraction if they were a lower social class, such as in China, even to the point of killing the offender.
...but here in the U.S. some years ago we had a polite society bent on making sure that we were a 'civilized' country. And people were taught to make way for elders or handicapped, Be polite to adults. Wait your turn, etc. Now I would say that they carried the etiquette thing a little too far, but the basics were an indispensable social skill.
If anybody is taught that now, they reject if to act like what they see on TV
I've always wondered what being in a place where morals are completely ambiguous like in some ancient times. In some societies people were arbitrarily punished for any infraction if they were a lower social class, such as in China, even to the point of killing the offender.
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Worst case....
In a hotel pool a couple had a small child and the guy was taking her into the pool. There is a shallow end, but he wandered all over the pool. When a kid jumped in close to where the man was, they went ballistic that somebody almost hurt their child. He started barking at the kids not to jump in the pool. He went back and forth holding the kid like a shield saying, don't jump in, don't jump in until all the kids were standing in a corner. I got enough and told him that he couldn't keep kids from jumping in the pool. He said, "Diving isn't allowed". I said, they aren't diving, they're jumping in. At this point his wife said she was going to 'handle me' and stomped around and told me that someone jumped in 'that far' (about an inch) from their little girl. They both stormed away angrily. He wouldn't keep the kid in the shallow part. He LITERALLY had the WHOLE pool to himself while the kids cowered in the corner while he 'guarded' the edges scowling and muttering at them to keep them out of the pool. God that made me mad. I let a lot slide, but that was the damnnest display of selfishness from BOTH people I've ever seen.
What makes me even madder is that if they complained to the manager, these days he'd just shut down the pool to avoid trouble regardless of their blatant disregard for EVERYBODY.
In a hotel pool a couple had a small child and the guy was taking her into the pool. There is a shallow end, but he wandered all over the pool. When a kid jumped in close to where the man was, they went ballistic that somebody almost hurt their child. He started barking at the kids not to jump in the pool. He went back and forth holding the kid like a shield saying, don't jump in, don't jump in until all the kids were standing in a corner. I got enough and told him that he couldn't keep kids from jumping in the pool. He said, "Diving isn't allowed". I said, they aren't diving, they're jumping in. At this point his wife said she was going to 'handle me' and stomped around and told me that someone jumped in 'that far' (about an inch) from their little girl. They both stormed away angrily. He wouldn't keep the kid in the shallow part. He LITERALLY had the WHOLE pool to himself while the kids cowered in the corner while he 'guarded' the edges scowling and muttering at them to keep them out of the pool. God that made me mad. I let a lot slide, but that was the damnnest display of selfishness from BOTH people I've ever seen.
What makes me even madder is that if they complained to the manager, these days he'd just shut down the pool to avoid trouble regardless of their blatant disregard for EVERYBODY.
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Perhaps a little bright light. Almost a year ago I had knee surgery which forced me to walk with a hip to ankle leg brace and a cane for awhile. Because of living alone, I got used to doing for myself all the time and helping others when needed. I must say that people could not have been more considerate and nicer to me when I was recovering from my surgery. It took a little getting used to because previously I got along on my own pretty well, but I finally realized that people were being genuinely considerate and thoughtful.
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WHEW,
glad you fully explained junk-
case-at my gym, some sit on the benches fully naked not caring who uses the locker room-and for the most part-THEY need to be fully clothed--or more than I need to be. And thats saying a lot...
fiasconva
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Self-absorbed stupid people who have no clue are everywhere. There just seems to be a lot more of them around lately.
625-7
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Karma or darwinism will catch up with them, for the rest of us we will be the better person in the situation and enjoy our otherwise good lives at home. that's all I got too say about that
shouldazagged
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Fortunately that's still not universal. I rarely go out anymore (much less often due to the flu epidemic here); but when I do venture forth it's with an oxygen tank and a four-wheel walker. I've had doors held for me, people asking if I needed help, and so on. Before I gave up driving they would insist on loading groceries in my car for me.
A lot of these kind souls were kids, teenagers.
There are lots of inconsiderate jerks out there, to be sure. Always have been. But there are lots of the good ones too.
Sunday morning I was out snowblowing the sidewalk (yet again...). Just in time, I saw the tip of a plastic bag poking up through the snow. A bag of dog poo, dropped on the sidewalk (not in the grass area), where it almost went through the blower. I then saw another bag a foot or so away, also on the sidewalk. My assumption is a pair of jackwagons were out walking their dogs, bagged their poo, then just dropped them there. It would have made a real mess in the snow blower. Hope they're real proud of themselves...
THE ROLLING STONES
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Look at the people that have a handy cap permit and they park their car in it and send someone that is 15 years old and not handy cap to go and the items they want.
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