You just don't know people sometimes

Something most unusual just happened.

Well, it is not like me to let things go by without having something to say about it.

But it is hard sometimes. So this will be a response, but not to name names or anything like that.

Is it really bad for someone to make a stand when a stand is absolutely necessary? It seems to me that there are some folks out there who think it is naughty to stand up for yourself. I cannot even begin to understand how someone could come to that opinion.

I really have to wonder about such a person, when such weakness can be an open invitation to aggression from those who are so inclined. In the case, that I will not mention, it seems that weakness is being made out to be a virtue. This is a perversion, which is a vice.

I know all this sounds pretty oblique, but you really cannot make a virtue out of a vice. A weak response to a in-civil person will not change any attitudes, but likely only to harden them against the weak. In short, you must stand up to the bully, not give in to him.

Any attempt to sugar coat cowardice is a vice in itself.