Funny post on another forum

[Stichill_imp]

I have this kind of argument with some of my rural neighbors about gunfire. It's unincorporated here, and there aren't any regulations against discharging a firearm unless it's between sunset and sunrise, with exception for controlling coyotes. So some of my neighbors run with the coyote exception and go out at 2:00 am and empty a few magazines. Some people, with justification in my view, complain about it. When confronted, the midnight mag-dumpers loudly proclaim their right to do it, and anyone who says otherwise is a pantywaist who needs to move back the the suburbs where they came from. I have pointed out that the reason there aren't any regulations is that there haven't been any problems, because people have used common sense and courtesy. If they persist in this anti-social behavior, they will ironically bring about the very regulations who absence they so recklessly exploit. At which point they declare me to be somebody who might be happier living in Portland amongst my own kind.

Some people are just incapable of self-governance. You can recognize them because they are the same people who don't take the shopping cart back to the cart corral at the supermarket.

Lazy, selfish and entitled?

Lazy, selfish and entitled?
I don't think so. I think somewhere along the way they decided the world was a zero-sum game where the goal is take and do as much as you can get away with, because if you don't somebody else will and you'll just miss out or worse: have it taken from you or done to you. Or, you'll obediently follow rules that nobody else does, and end up feeling cheated and stupid for going along with the program that others flouted.

It doesn't occur to them that incivility breeds incivility and the more we do it to each other, the more we do it to each other and the worse it gets for everyone. They would be the first ones to complain if the store put up bollards to prevent the carts from leaving the store.