Attitude and behavior are intertwined like strands of a rope--and the two are generally inseparable. I'd challenge anyone to read Wandering Daisy's Trinity Alps trip report and opine that she should have been sanguine about the behavior and attitude exhibited by the yahoos she encountered.

Louts often are harmless and merely annoying in their disregard for others, but my observation is those folks who inflict harm upon the backcountry, sometimes to the point of being an actual threat to others, are always from the cohort who act as louts.

Quoting Woodrow Call: