Regarding your drama comment: traditionally hive people like drama. :)
But jokes aside, people typically don't like to be told what to do. They just want to do whatever they want. In vacuum that is perfectly fine. However, we don't live inside a vacuum. If someone's actions hurts or affects someone else negatively and it is detrimental to the society, then we have a situation and someone got to speak up.
You are from Cuba. You are very familiar with this, not that it is strikingly different in the US now :)