My mother used to call it manners

[Grammy23]

17. Another saying..."Mind your own knitting"

Which is another way of saying, "Mind your own business." Unless you know there is abuse going on, you need to stay out of other people's lives. But somehow people think they have a right to meddle around in other people's lives, bedrooms, political choices, etc.

Discussing religion, politics or even the latest dietary fad is fraught with land mines. It seems that anger is frequently the go to emotion associated with certain topics, so we find ourselves having to avoid those topics. The notion of old fashioned debate is dead. Watching the political debates last fall demonstrated that clearly. Forget facts and ideas. Zingers that snap and designed to hurt are what it has come to. 😢