It might be the implication, "If it bothers them so much"... I pick stuff up occasionally but I can't make up for a city of people who don't care to pick up th

It might be the implication, "If it bothers them so much"... I pick stuff up occasionally but I can't make up for a city of people who don't care to pick up their own trash. If I complain about it and you suggest in anyway that if I cared I should pickup after grown adults who don't care to act in a basic civilized manner I would find that very grating. Civic pride needs to be collective.