There has been an attitude developed in some parts of America where respect for each other, especially while one is doing their job has been thrown out the window. Primarily due to the poisonous, vial, manipulative and hostile nature of the desperate politics and policy of the day which is pumped out into the minds of the public by corporate partisan media.
Both the news and the entertainment corporate entities promote disrespect and violence. There has been developed a perverted sense of entitlement and an unwarranted feeling of superiority in some. Mostly among a segment of the younger people of America.
Moment bus driver pummels passenger 'for making vile bodily fluid attack on him' | Daily Mail Online
If the young man who appears to have initiated the initial disrespectful, disgusting and potentially biologically infectious (?) assault on the bus driver in this story actually spit on the bus driver. Do you think he will ever do that or at least think twice before he does it again?
The bus driver was not happy with how the young man interacted with him and was not willing to accept the young man's actions. An MMA trained bus driver?
There are all degrees of consequences for actions taken and these moments when appropriate consequences for offensive or corrupt actions taken are meted out in real time can serve as a learning experience for all involved. I think the young man may have learned a valuable lesson. The word Hubris comes to mind.
Most of the time especially within politics and government there are NO appropriate consequences for actions taken. There are excuses made and there is willful tribal / party blindness employed.
And that trend both in society and within politics does not serve anyone's good.
Are you paying attention yet America? JGL 8/19/24
Hubris was the "fatal pride" that angered the Greek gods, who then punished the arrogant mortal--often with death. Also, the Old Testament tells us that "Pride goeth before destruction." Today we call it narcissism, but it's still old-fashioned hubris, and it's still dangerous.