litterbug

Fine the litterbug companies and litterbug people, leave everyone else the hell alone.

By their powers combined, all of us (even those among the 'educated class') turn into captain litterbug.

Why should someone in Oklahoma pay more for the actions of a litterbug in the Philippines?

Sorry, you're a known litterbug, no one may sell you insulin for your diabetes.

The litterbug in your example is still choosing their actions based on authority.

I always wanted to be a litterbug and a floating aviation hazard at the same time.

Oh, so you're a devil-may-care litterbug?

Compare this to 'jaywalking' or 'litterbug's.

> Oh neat, I always wanted to be a litterbug Exactly.

It’s a better meme without that fact (business card person is/is-not the litterbug), because it plays on a fear that social networks will spread the story of the double injury wide and far before ultimately tracking down the litterbugs.

A person standing in a pristine forest is still wrong to throw their trash on the ground and walk away even though it doesn't immediately turn the forest into a toxic cleanup site, and it would be hard for the litterbug to guess at the costs of paying someone to go into the forest to clean up that mess in the future.

And "litterbug" was a term invented by the packaging industry in a PR campaign that shifted blame about packaging waste from the manufacturers to the consumers.

All of your suggestions reek of things like "jaywalking", which came from pro-auto propaganda, and "litterbug campaigns", which were propaganda from companies to shift the blame from them to the consumer.

But then plastic took off and soon after Big Sugar paid a PR/lobbying firm to run a campaign with a fake Indian crying a single tear and calling every Tom Dick and Harry a “litterbug” and now the pile of garbage is our fault, not the manufacturers.

Instead, the “litterbug” became the real villain, and KAB supported fines and jail time for people who carelessly tossed out their trash, despite the fact that, clearly, “littering” is a relatively tiny part of the garbage problem in this country (not to mention the resource damage and pollution that comes with manufacturing ever more junk in the first place).