What You Owe Strangers
Maybe not owe, but everyone deserves to be treated politely regardless of whether you know them or not. You can’t choose to be rude to a stranger because you think you have nothing to do with them and shouldn’t care about how they perceive you. Of course, you wouldn’t like to be treated rudely by strangers either, would you?
Basic human decency and politeness take a little effort, and it will make our society, as a whole, better. Imagine if everyone treated strangers rudely because they thought ‘they don’t owe them anything.’ Of course, you don’t have to go out of your way to be nice to strangers, but a little decency goes a long way.