There's a level of rudeness that I find unacceptable. I basically never see it among my friends. I see it very rarely in the Berkeley rationalist community. However, I can't spend much time scrolling Twitter without running into it (even if I try to stay within TPOT). And it's also pretty common for me to see unacceptable levels of rudeness when pursuing healthcare.

It seems so easy to avoid rude behavior when navigating my friend-network, but so difficult to avoid it when navigating other parts of society. This seems pretty striking to me!

I don't know what to do with this insight -- perhaps I'm stuck on it because it seems like it shouldn't be true.