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In reply to the discussion: Racially charged confrontation at Reno airport captured on video [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)This is exactly how road rage incidents happen. It often involves the testosterone of two alpha males insisting on "winning."
When someone acts infantile, say something (or not), and walk away like an adult. Don't feed the animals, and you won't get attacked.
If only more men would do this, there would be fewer road rage incidents. It is not required to taunt someone like you're in junior high school because someone said something rude to you. "Sticks and stones can break your bones, etc."
How quickly people are to jump on Hector's bandwagon but not say, "wait a minute...we're not seeing what started this. And Hector is taunting the other guy, so maybe he's not totally a victim here."
If Mike really started it by saying something rude, Hector's not going to change his mind or accomplish anything by ribbin' on him. Just say something back, and walk away like an adult. If you taunt someone and they turn on you, you are not the victim, any more. You are part of the problem. And there are innocent people standing around.
You never know with people what they are dealing with, what problems they may have.