Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We met our daughter and her two kids at a park along the bay, and the day was beautiful and the two playgrounds wonderful. But at the toddler playground two dads were unmasked, and were yelling and running around with their daughters. At the second playground, there was an unmasked man again. After we looked at the bay and had lunch, we encountered two men unmasked, and had to go around them, and on the path, occasionally, a person or family was unmasked. Why endanger others? I just don't get it. There was also a man on a motorcycle roaring down the path when we just arrived. This path was for children, families, people walking their dogs and bicyclists. It used to be easier to ignore differences between people, but being unmasked says it all: "I don't care about you or your life, or your tiny children or grandchildren. You can't make me". It's deeply sad. It seems to be young men often feel the need to violate safety rules. Is the testosterone in their blood causing the risktaking? It reminds me of when I was a teenager and volunteered to be a Candy Striper. I was assigned to a rehabilitation facility nearby, and most of the ward where I helped consisted of young men paralyzed from the neck down or waist down from car accidents and dangerous adventures. Their whole lives were before them and they threw everything away carelessly. Perhaps they had hurt others in these accidents as well. I don't know how you teach concern and respect for others, but whatever it is, they had missed it by a mile. It was tragic.