Hey Gaspode, here I am. 
Fucko off. Entire generation my youthful arse. Rude dickheads exist now, they existed 10 years ago, 20 years ago, a generation ago, a century ago – they existed even when you were young enough to remember older people slurring your entire generation because of the actions of a few.
Narrad… guess my age.
It’s clueless newbies day, isn’t it?
As for the OP, I can’t answer your brilliant and oh-so-important question.
I’m fairly sure that if I could, I’d be richer than Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Queen Elizabeth and Oprah all put toger and multiplied by ten.
So, if my 6 year old was walking with me at the beach on a nice family outing and some asshole decided he wanted to jerk off in public and my baby asks me what’s going on I need to tell him, Shit happens…let’s move on? Great life lesson.
The OP was using the beach example just as that…an example. His main point, from what I gathered, was to ask why people find it acceptable to act like an asshole and what is wrong with people who do so.
YMMV
they don’t think they’re assholes, or wrong, for that matter.
On the other hand, flashers get off on the look of horror, or disgust on your face. It’s what they crave. So they do know they’re disgusting, but they don’t care.
Both demographic groups are somehow mentally disturbed. I don’t think it should be accepted/tolerated behaviour
But why? Everyone is spoonfed the rules of society from birth. How can you possibly go this far wrong? How can they miss that they’re assholes?
Actually, I think Aries28 just answered the question.
Q: Why do people find it acceptable to act like an asshole?
A: Because the world is full of people like nisobar and amoeba who give them a pass on their behavior.
To paraphrase a longstanding truth: all it takes for assholery to triumph is for bystanders to shrug their shoulders and act like it’s okay.
look at this-
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there’s a difference between sticking a hand down the boxers and jerking off. We can’t ascertain the facts, so I’ll continue with my philosophy, that does in fact work, in light of the ensuing mental events posited in the OP.
as for your baby, if he had a brother or sister they’d probably be doing it for theirselves, and each other. Kids do experiment, and their experiments do tend to conflict with the ‘high’ opinions that adults harbour.
Yay! Now where’s my money? I believe I am now supposed to be richer than Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Queen Elizabeth and Oprah all put together and multiplied by ten…or something like that…
You can pay me in cheesecake and shoes and I’ll be happy as a clam. 
You have got to be kidding me…THIS is your argument??? That kids are going to masturbate anyway so IF this guy was doing it at the beach then it should get a pass? Geez.
Of course, kids experiment. No, I don’t have “high” opinions that makes that bad or dirty.
But a GROWN man on the beach IF that was what he was doing was WRONG and I don’t blame Priceguy for saying anything or being offended by it.
Why is this so hard to fathom?
Clueless newbie day indeed… :rolleyes:
Well, Aries28, let’s not forget his lovely defense of “my philosophy works (with my own personal definition of ‘works’)”. Rape works, theft works, murder works… it’s all good!
I like that one, but I can’t go around with a walking stick beating the shit out of misguided kids.
why do people find it acceptable for others to act like ‘assholes’?
since it doesn’t affect them, they aren’t going to spend energy, creating a problem that doesn’t need to arise. The last thing you want is some ‘gutter trash’, who has no friends or suitable peers, to throw molotov cocktails through your windows.
since they don’t affect us, and we are too lazy to take care of unwanted people, they make themselves heard by the only way they know: by shouting and causing trouble. It is the only way to get attention.
Priceguy, I completely agree with you. As was said better than I can:
From tlw
Oh yeah, Priceguy, I’ll take a stab at your age - late 20’s?
please try to read what I posted properly, rather than using sarcasm to dismiss my point, unless you would rather fight, in which case, I’m not interested. sorry to waste my time.
someone sticking their hands down their boxers hardly equates to rape or other serious ‘life-changing’ events.
If you choose to laugh at my typing, you do so at your own expense, as do I.
yes, but being spoonfed them does not necessarily mean that you adhere to them. Most rapists don’t think they’re doing anything wrong.
story of a garda over here that asked a prostitute for a girl as young as 7. She reported him, he was caught.
He said he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong, as he was willing to pay for it.
These people should take the Hare test, and see how psychotic they really are. Not that tey would care, mind you. But it does explain why they think the way they do.
No concept of right or wrong, really.
Whatever works is indeed good, for them
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/robert_hare/5.html?sect=19
And why do you think those kids are misguided? Because of the point of this very thread. People are not stepping up to the plate when something is wrong.
Rape is wrong. Murder is wrong. Theft is wrong. Sticking your hands down your pants for an extended period of time doing whatever it was the guy was doing at a public beach was wrong. To yell and threaten after someone called him on it was also wrong.
I don’t think anyone here is interested in fighting, but your statements about shit happens…move on seem to be the very crux of what the problem in the OP was.
And because we all seem to have gotten our feathers up…welcome Amoeba…may you enjoy your time here and maybe even learn something or get a different opinion than you previously have on some issues. I have.
Well, ameoba, mark my words - try doing it sometime. Go on, go out in public where there are familys walking around and try jerking off like some pervert while a father walks by with his young child.
As the father’s fist closes in on your face with terrifying force, I challenge you to talk your way out of it by arguing that it hardly equates to rape or anything.
But you know something. I bet you have more guts writing silly delibrately controversial stances on a messageboard than to actually go into public and actually do what you’re supposedly standing up for here.
likewise
amoeba, you silly boy, we haven’t stood up for assholicious behaviour, so your “likewise” is a toothless admission that you’re a moron.
yawn- speak for yourself, fool