What do you do when dealing with ignoble people?

So big deal, you want to be noble. But the fact is that most of the world is functioning at a second grade level in terms of ethics and consciousness.
What is the implication for you?
I have found more than anytime in my life how true it is that you can find goodness and evil anywhere you look.
It is not the fact of the state of people's minds. It is what you do with their actions.
The Buddha said that all we own are our actions.
I suggest that the two things that we have under our influence is our motives and our actions.
So, it is not useful or skillful to look at what others do except to ask how would I respond that will make me feel whole, skilled and awake?
Several vignettes recently come to my mind. They all illustrate the fact that my part in the interaction was to have been imagining that they were rational or moral or conscious of their actions and the consequences.
None of that was true. Critize me for being naive. I have always had this problem believing people when they tell me something.
I guess I am one of those that PT Barnum spoke of when he said there was a sucker born every minute.
But I would rather be hopeful, caring and assuming the best of people rather than pessimistic and focusing on what is wrong with the human race.

I aspire to something better than the harm that people do to each other. This is part of my noble purpose- to stand for the view that we can all wake up and be our noble selves.

Elad