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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
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Subject: Re: Noise pollution, majority rules
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 22:36:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 22:36:28 1985
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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP
>it is his problem because it seems like the majority of people
>around him want the music and he doesn't.  He distinctly said, "they turn
>it down when I ask them but I don't want it turned down, I WANT IT OFF!"
>He wants what he wants and doesn't care what the other people around him
>want.  I ask you, who is being insensitive?

What he wants, I think, is not to be accosted by what others call music.
He probably doesn't care if you listen to the stuff, as long as you don't
force him to.  I agree with him; fortunately for me, the people where I work
who like to play radios (or walkthings at such a volume that I, sitting
across the room, can identify what they're listening to.... dunno how their
ears can take it...) have started to get reasonable, but at one point it was
pretty unbearable and it was a situation I was forced into (I couldn't take
the lisp machine and go home).  I don't think the people who would impose
that on others are being particularly reasonable.

>If I'm playing it too loud for you I will
>turn it down or use headphones.  

Unfortnately, too many addicts insist that headphones are not a reasonable
compromise.  All things considered, headphones solve the problem nicely.  
(Yes, I use a walkthing at work and no, I don't see the problem with 
headphones.  I also use a volume setting of 2-3 on a 10 point scale, 
though....)

							-Dragon
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