Burning question about airplane passengers who create a brouhaha over not masking:

[dixiegrrrrl]

Their motivation, actually.

Do they mask when coming into the airport, checking luggage, sitting in waiting area, getting the boarding pass, and, most importantly, entering and sitting on the plane?

Surely they know they have to mask for some, if not all, the preflight stuff. And they know if the flight requires them.

So what is the point of starting a fight in the seating area? Haven't they watched the news and seen the consequences of previous rule breaking passengers??

I don't get it.

[PSPS]

1. It's folly to try to extract logic from the actions of an insane person.

[underpants]

5. ✅

Spot on.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

Not worth the effort.

[GeoWilliam750]

2. Being the only sane person in a rooom full of lunatics..

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is not a competitive advantage.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Or being the only Democrat at a CPAC.

I guess I duplicated your post, GW.

[Scrivener7]

3. They want attention. They are so dysfunctional that this is how they seek it.

[3Hotdogs]

7. Owning the lib'tards is the goal.

[Scrivener7]

10. Yes, but they have to be seen doing it, "making a stand" and whatever other nonsense is

hissing around inside their empty heads.

[multigraincracker]

4. To join the basket of deplorables requires

being a victim of those mean liberals.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Well said.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. They comply, comply, comply against their will but the anger boils over at the last minute

I suspect some element of claustrophobia and the confinement of the plane is the final trigger.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. Or the drinks they have at the airport bar waiting to board (nt)

[PJMcK]

13. Who cares what motivates these idiots?

These people are told the rules ahead of time. They are fully aware of their behavior. Hold them accountable and throw their asses in jail AND ban them from the airlines for life.

They are jeopardizing the plane, crew and passengers with their foolishness. This is unacceptable. By the way, it’s always one schmuck causing the trouble. The other folks on the plane aren’t misbehaving so why coddle the troublemakers?

[ms liberty]

14. It's human nature to ask why. It's not coddling or excusing

To attempt to understand the motivations of people.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Yes. Someday Ph.D dissertations will be written on this topic.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Alcohol, drugs, narcissism, sociopathy, immature acting out, delusional.

We have a big chunk of the population who are not able to function in an adult way.

They are entitled and feel the rules don't apply to them. Narcissists and not smart sociopaths are so wrapped up in themselves they cannot read the room, and believe they can bully, threaten others into giving them what they want.
They will throw tantrums like a child to meet their needs.

Some are truly delusional and believe covid is fake. And are willing to die or go to jail.

Others know it is real, but just want an excuse to act out.

Throw booze and drugs on top of these pathologies, it is a recipe for disaster.