Altruistic Politeness Enforcement Tactics
Interesting piece from The Guardian in which Oliver Burkeman suggests society might be better off if we all inflicted some altruistic punishment on rude people:
The study of happiness rightly focuses on such indisputable virtues as gratitude, generosity, and forgiveness. But any honest accounting of the sources of daily pleasure – for me, anyway – must include the exquisite joys of what I’ve come to think of as Politeness Enforcement Tactics: the guerrilla moves we use to avenge boorish behaviour in public places.
What an interesting idea.
