Sometimes the bad behavior that we are conditioned to tolerate isn't bad on purpose, it is merely oblivious. Himself's initial example is certainly bad behavior ... such people are waaay over-reacting to someone else's opinion. The cartoonists weren't drowning puppies or selling baby cutlets, they were just expressing opinions, which, as editorial cartoonists, is their job.
But, there was a prime example of bad oblivious behavior that everyone, including me, just put up with on the bus today. A lady with a big back pack that stuck out beyond her physical boundries got on the bus. She stood in the aisle right near the doorway. This was one of those double length buses and there were plenty of seats. She also had an umbrella which stuck accross the part of the aisle that she wasn't taking up. Everyone getting on the bus had to push past her. She was a human turnstile but didn't move farther back in the bus, or sit or anything. Nor did anyone point out to her that she was blocking the aisle so she might want to move back or sit. She didn't get mad at people pushing past her, but she didn't seem to notice that she didn't need to be taking up that particular chunk of space either.
Not only do the wolves get more attention then the sheep, but the sheep will jump over the boulders rather than roll them out of the path.
JIMR