I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civility is not simply about manners.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.
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