Why Should You Treat People How You Desire to Be Treated?

You get back whatever you put out to the world.

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When did it become acceptable to simply be rude to people?

Seriously, when did it become acceptable to treat people with such disrespect? For example, it wasn’t all that long ago that when the President gave the State of the Union address, the other side got a rebuttal after it. Outright heckling? What are you, undisciplined grade school children?

Name-calling, inappropriate gestures, and other disturbing behaviors have become increasingly normalized in the last decade or so. This is a direct reflection of a growing lack of kindness, compassion, and empathy coupled with increasing cynicism, skepticism, greed, and fearmongering.

The narrative, both benign and malicious, tends to be about lack, scarcity, insufficiency, and taking what’s “rightfully” yours. We live in a world where we’re frequently presented with limited slices of pizza and pie where, in truth, there are no limits at all.

Then, when people who have treated others poorly receive poor treatment, they get all indignant. Anyone who complains about anything or any time and attention focused on women, blacks, other people of color, the LGBTQA+ community, or any other marginalized group has no understanding of…