re: Prof Tweets 'Trying Not To Vomit’ After Passenger Gave Up Seat For Soldier

"Expressing thanks and offering an easily doable kindness may not epitomize sincerity but it hardly merits derision as some sort of misplaced "worship"."

So well said. Something I have noted over the last decade or so is an increased in ability in people just to say "I might not choose to do 'x' but that's what he chose to do." It wasn't enough for lefty prof dude to think that he wouldn't do it, it had to be that he was going to vomit, etc., because someone else did it.