In article , "Kim"
writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim "
writes:

I've really never given the "behavior"
such thought, i.e. analogy, etc.

Think about it. You've dealt with children - isn't it true that they will
tend
to repeat behavior that gets them what they want? If whining works, don't
you
get more whining?

What I meant by my comment was that I've never really thought of it much
beyond just making a conscious decision not to "give in," "yield," "cave,"
whatever one wishes to call it. But I agree, it'd be much the same as with
a child.

My point exactly.

It's illogical to think that sort of thing isn't present in adults.

I agree again, and it is...I see it in my training sessions and elsewhere
every day at work

Of course.

BUT, I am generally a very even tempered
person and I don't feel I'm in any way wrong to stay in the lane I've
chosen
to drive in, above the posted speed, safely, forming safe distances
between
myself and drivers ahead of me, and never-minding nitwits behind me who
think I should "yield" to them so they can speed faster and keep making
each successive vehicle move.

Would you agree that if you *do* yield, you validate their behavior and in
a small way encourage them to do more of it?

Absolutely.

That was my point.

Personally, I move, because I care more about my own safety. But that's
just me.

I am probably lately more apt to be ignorant of my own safety in a steady
determination to "dammit, stop allowing others to treat me like that"
attitude. I've been in one of those attitudes for a while now. I'm kind of
liking it.

Which means *your* behavior is being rewarded....

However, I recommend the safer alternative. Let the "idiot" be ahead of you.

73 de Jim, N2EY