Who the hell does he think he is? My brother, that's who!

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The thought came to my head when my brother started on his little rant today. He is, possibly, one of the rudest people I know. However, I'm going to give my opinion on the matter and let you guys fill in the social acceptance of rudeness and such in comments. Please, take a look over this mans comments and give your own opinion, maybe with your help I can help this man.

Who here has heard the words Please or Thank You? Who here has done something wrong, and said I'm Sorry? These phrases are said nearly every day by each and every person you can imagine. They are common courtesy, used to calm those around us and make everything be pushed forward in a timely manner. Someone does you a favor : You say thank you. Someone makes a mistake : They appologize. This is how most people work, it's just good manners.

What happens when someone doesn't have those manners? What happens when you do something for someone and they don't thank you? What happens when someone insults you, you inform them, and they don't appologize?

The common answer to this question is : Not much. A word might be said about it, but one offense is pretty easily overlooked. However, a collective number of offenses will eventually cause this person to be labled Rude.

Rude is a very blunt term. Now for those of you who do not know the correct usage of the word rude, it means to be lacking the graces and refinement of civilized life;  uncouth, or to be ill-mannered or discourteous.

My brother is one of these "rude" people. He has the following thoughts on a few subjects :

"Just because you were offended doesn't mean I was trying to offend you. It's your fault for taking it the wrong way, that's not what I ment. I will not appologize for your mistake."

"I just don't say I'm Sorry, or Thank you. This is how I am, everyone's allowed to be who they want to be, aren't they? Why should I change for someone else?"

"There's not enough time in life to argue, why should we fight about what I said? Aren't there more important things going on?"

"I may be bad at a few things, I will admit I'm not perfect, but I could be far worse. I could just become a complete jerk and run around telling everyone to shut the F up."

Now, some of you might ask "Well isn't he going to get upset if he sees that you're displaying his private life and actions to the public?", and to this I respond that he doesn't seem to be at all ashamed of the way he is. With this belief fueling my fingers, I don't see a single problem with displaying this information. This is no different than telling you that I went to the Zoo today, this is just his normal day actions. He wasn't acting out, he wasn't trying to start crap. This is truely how he is.

Here are a few things I'd like your opinion on that happened recently :

I have a flaw with how I read things, my mind works much too fast for my mouth to sometimes catch up. Tonight I was reading the word Firebreath, and accidentally said Firebreathe. My brother starts laughing at me.

I find this offensive, because he is in truth laughing at a reading disorder I have no matter how accute it may be. I feel insulted, and ask him to stop. He does not appologize and just says "but it's funny!". He continues to chuckle as I sit there and steam, not trying to start an argument.

Later on, as I am looking through a few things I walk into his room about to play a game. I mention something on a strategy I'm thinking of, and he calls it stupid in a tone that is, as well, insulting dispite the fact that it's a global strategy and not one pinpointed towards him as an individual. This hits me the wrong way, but I feel that nothing needs to be said. I walk out of the room considering the fact he plops down on his bed and starts watching a movie instead of getting set up for the game and the fact that I feel insulted.

He later comes to be asking if we're going to play or not, and while looking through some things again I calmly say "I just don't feel like playing right now, man." and this seems to agravate him to no end. He says "Fine, whatever. Gah." in an obviously agravated tone. He storms into his room and back onto his bed. I go to ask him what his problem is, and he says something about me being ticked off at him, and how there is not enough time in life for being angry. ( This is an agrument he tries alot, especially when he has nothing else to say back or knows what he wants to say is wrong. He obviously does have a sense of right and wrong, and understanding of what is not socially accecptable.)

We have an argument for a while, and after him using blank ended points and logic that does nothing but try to open up it being ok for him being rude, and me being called too sensitive many times as well as a hot head (Because so many things he said insult me, or becaues I like to argue too much while conviently missing the facts that the arguments would not be there if he did not insult me to begin with or that even if I was sensitive,which I am not, that it's not an excuse that allows him to be rude.) the argument ended with me saying :

"Fine, go ahead and be rude. From now on I'm going to raise holy hell when you are and you're going to have to sit there and take it because no matter your excuse you do not have the right to be rude to anyone, no matter who you are."

What is your opinion on the subject?