Marc Haine talks about personal responsibility and what you can actually control: your own reactions to others. He uses theater late-seating policy as an example of how to handle inconvenient behavior respectfully, without framing it as punishment.
You can't control other people. All you can control is your reaction to what other people do. Okay, theaters learned this a long time ago. When you buy a ticket, it doesn't say, don't be late, you loser. It says, we seat latecomers at the first opportunity. That's the policy. This is not about forbidden activity and punishment. This is about How we handle a situation we're not crazy about. That is a much more respectful policy to put forward than just to tell people, don't be late.
