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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
Message-ID: <1103@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 15:10:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 15:10:10 1985
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In article <771@rduxb.UUCP> jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes) writes:
>> I didn't much care for pop music when I was a teen, and I still don't.
>> I am FED UP with having others musical preferences forced on me.
>
>Are you suggesting that you want your musical preferences forced on others?

	    I don't think he is, unless you want to call silence music.
	(No, I don't want to get into a discussion about John Cage.)

>> * At play *  Around here, all the city owned swimming pools are
>>            equipped with metal horn loudspeakers -- the better to
>>            blare top 40 MOR music with.  The park district people
>>            respond "but most people using the pools like it".
>>            Maybe so, but it is my pool too - I pay taxes to
>>            maintain and operate it.
>
>Big whoop!  So do the other people that use the pool.  Remember this is a
>democracy, majority rules.  If you don't like it move somewhere else.
>
>> * At home *  My city gov't thinks it's a great idea to allow
>>            the merchants assoc. to hire rock bands to play in
>>            city parking lots -- LOUD, you can hear it over a
>>            mile away.  I don't LIKE being forced out of my home
>>            by city hall.
>
>It is a great idea.  It gives kids something to do and it keeps them amused.
>And again here, its a democracy.  If you don't like it vote for other
>city leaders.

	    Does your idea of democracy state that if 51% of us decide
	to infringe on the rights of the other 49% that is all fine and
	dandy?  "Majority rule" should not be absolute by any means.

						--pH
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