Too many people want the freedom to opt out of the social contract - which is what rudeness means, at its core - yet want everyone else to follow it because they don’t like the result when people treat them in kind.
“I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library, because if I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done."