I’m also very pro accountability.

I once screwed up and got into a minor fender bender once. just a pushed in plastic panel on the other guys car, and a scrape on mine. immediately owned up to it and said yeah my bad and got his info and paid him back for it after he got a repair quote

nowadays, I would first judge the person in order to determine how I act. do they look like someone that cares about how their actions affect others? if not, then I’m going to treat them how they probably treat me. leave a shopping cart in the middle of the sidewalk? fuck you. have a giant ass car with LED headlights on pointing directly into a restaurant when you’re not even in the car? fuck you. tailgate the shit out of me for no reason? fuck you. blow a stop sign and nearly run me over in the marked crossing? fuck you. have your shit laid out all over the bus and a bunch of people are getting on? fuck you. standing in the middle of the whatever blocking people from going by and you goddamn well know you’re in the way? fuck you.

my point is that I am only going to bother treating other people well so long as they don’t seem like they don’t treat others well. otherwise, I’m just following the golden rule