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I was making fun of this entire concept. If talking in public is allowed, it implies that everyone is comfortable with a person emitting a certain amount of noise. What form that noise takes is idiotic to divvy up and bitch about.
Explain to me how if you're annoyed by music playing, why is that any more valid than someone else being mad at talking? Or someone else for whistling? Singing? Phone ringing? Vibrating? Where are your arbitrary lines?
You can't be serious. Or you don't spend a lot of time in public.
Most people's conversations in public are fairly quiet. People often do get annoyed of people are having a screaming or otherwise disruptive conversation on the subway. Most humans don't find a quiet conversation that distracting though. Hearing half a conversation annoys most people- I think it's because the brain keeps trying to figure out what's happening.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hearing-just-one-half-of-a-conversation-is-really-really-annoying-2657804/
It's not really """arbitrary lines""". The shared theme is "don't distract other people in public". Whistling fails this check. So does singing. As does a phone alarm going off. But also like most things that annoy or tolerate are arbitrary.
This is especially true if you need to hear announcements like what stop this is or that this train is going express.
Anyway, my current thinking is you're doing some sort of "bit" as a selfish child, or you just don't spend a lot of time in public.
So you would like legislation passed to outlaw street performers? If I'm a child for asking these questions, what does that make you, an angry old man yelling at kids? Maybe I'm just not as bothered by people living there lives as you are. I expect noise in public.
Street performers aren't the same as people watching videos on their phone.
Ah, another arbitrary distinction. I'm sure glad that laws aren't up to your fickle sensibilities. Should we have a pre approved list of ring tones? Can we use music as ring tones?
You don't seem to understand how things or people work, so I don't think engaging with you further will be fruitful.
Lol, and you don't know how logic works. You can't even articulate what you want changed in the status quo in a consistent and sensible manner. I certainly know how things work, which is why I can point out how this entire argument about noise in public is entirely full of holes and nonsense. Life is noisy, deal with it. Or get some ear plugs. And then whine about it on the Internet.