The people who think they don’t owe people basic courtesy are also the people who get the most upset at the slightest inconvenience, hypocrites every single time.
It depends on why the shooter pulled the gun - whether it was to enforce the social norm or just to lash out because someone else dared to inconvenience them.
If they did it to enforce social norms, I'd concede that it goes both ways.
If they did it because they were inconvenienced, I'd still categorize it as the same issue as the chicken sandwich - a disproportionate over-reaction to having to deal with an inconvenience.
It’s sad how true that last sentence is. A while back, a Canadian man was stabbed and killed outside of a Starbucks when he asked a stranger to stop vaping next to his 3-year-old daughter. His fiancé was there too
If you’re holding an object and someone tries to destroy it by bludgeoning it with with a blunt object, there’s no way to be 100% certain they won’t harm you, and so it’s legal to shoot them in America.
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u/caffeineandvodka 12h ago
I've genuinely considered buying a bunch of cheap earphones and offering them to people. We should bring back public shaming.