What causes a person to abandon common courtesy?
 

Let's speculate.

Damage to ego.

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Alcohol.

Stress.

how about a complete lack of belief in the "decency" of their fellow humans

Or the concept of decency per se

put away your guns mate we bros

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why does netphoria still have a faggot emoticon?

i'd imagine it's up to andrew to change that shit

or maybe not i dunno

i just know i can't

Is this one offensive btw? :dead:

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oh wait it does, twf

petition to change :rant: to :eulogy:

having a mood disorder

i would be down, trots

just put the guns in our kids hands why dont you

This reminds me: At orientation for work (and subsequent annual inservices), we are encouraged to greet fellow employees in the hallway even if we don't know them to foster a friendly environment so patients see us as friendlier and more approachable. Around the same time every day, I head to the cafeteria and almost every I see another employee heading out and say hello. Never once has this woman said hello back or even acknowledged me, without fail she'll use the moment to pull out her phone or to suddenly find the floor fascinating until we pass each other. Today, she pulls out her phone on cue right as I say hello so I start looking down at mine and purposely run into her. She was super annoyed but when I said I didn't see her, she couldn't say shit back because if she did she'd have to admit she just ignored my saying hello and would look like a bitch. So she just made a huffy noise and walked off. I stand by it.

I'm not the most social person but come the fuck on, bitch. Just be a decent person for five seconds.

i noticed that about a lot of people at offices honestly, like their will to live has been destroyed and looking at another person or speaking to them fills them with so much anger and anxiety

Hah, oh man, the number of people at my old job who would flat out ignore me (and all security staff) as I walked by them in the halls. It would fill a fucking auditorium. I was a ghost. The company was half scientists and half admin staff. I can count on maybe two hands who, out of a thousand, would ever talk to me or even say hi.

Horribly snotty, middle-aged, socially-inept bores.

I realize probably a majority of security people are fucking creeps but, it's funny, the people who would chat with me every day - more than a few were like "Man, you're totally unlike a typical security guard" because I was not threatening and I read books. A few I keep in regular contact with (on FB).

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inability to empathize

i swear half the people on their cellphones while checking out at my job just have it up to my ear so they don't have to talk to me

well, this is assuming the person had it before. i think many people who don't have common courtesy just don't have whatever it is that makes us want to make each other feel good - basically, they're antisocial (in the classic sense - basically "anti-society"

as far as abandoning it - righteous anger (or what the person sees as righteous anger), impatience, having a bad day, projection (as in they project you doing the same to them so they do it back).

really there could be all sorts of reasons

this could be a cause i guess but i dunno man not being courteous just feels bad to me, and it makes me feel bad when i do it

I think us surviving offspring are here because our ancestors felt that way and it helped them survive in groups and cooperate.

today i scolded a woman old enough to be my grandmother for not covering her mouth when she coughed directly at me and a foot away. i felt really bad about it later. she said i needn't worry because its only a smokers cough and she hadn't been sick since her 37 year old son was 5 and she got pneumonia