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May 25th, 2008, 08:03 PM

in my daily travels it seems to me that courtesy has been a bit lacking of late...
have you found this to be true?
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May 25th, 2008, 08:47 PM

I see a lot of courtesy when it's convenient for people to do so. Rush hour in the city though, it's a pretty rare commodity.
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May 25th, 2008, 10:03 PM

Interesting about labelling good behaviour a courtesy. I like that. It IS a courtesy and I think perhaps an art that many are losing.

I find in many cases people pride themselves on their lack of courtesy as though it makes them stronger or more entitled. When driving for instance, people just go.....when they could have allowed the other driver the right of way. It would only have taken a second.

It is a small kindness that can make the day for another.
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May 26th, 2008, 04:53 AM

interesting to examine theword "courtesy" here and its roots.

Originally it was the way people were expected to behave in the royal courts. In other words, the exception, rather than the rule
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May 26th, 2008, 09:18 AM

Good day Herm!

Hope all is well with you.

"Privilege" whether it's the political military or merchant class have always demanded and for the most part recieved special consideration. What now passes for "political correctness" is a mutated bastardization of the same notion. As one should never actually tell the Emperor that he's naked...one must follow , like parliament and "diplomacy", rules of language and form. "PC" enjoys a similarly extreme popularity as what passes for dialogue and "communications" in government circles for a very long time....

You can say some things "in the house" under protection of "privilege" but if you (an MP or government mandarin of some rank) offers a similar opinion outside in the halls...well then you can sue his butt.....

Like social acceptance of brutality in hockey and "sports" (cock/bull/dog fighting are in a class all there own..) we embrace the ludicrousy of "time and place" as metric for appropriateness and propriety. Sometimes that's a good thing but it should be counter-balanced with the understanding that it is the opportunity to avoid responsibility for how one behaves and what one thinks. We embrace the notion that the car salesman and the real estate agent will lie to us if that serves their purpose...just like we accept that our political process is rife with corruption and disinformation. The genesis of this embrace of the phoney and the lie.....is the bastardization of the idea of "courtesy" as it "trickled-down" from the privileged to the great unwashed......
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