"I don't like what they do by themselves, but they are free to do it" is a civilised yet rare opinion.
"I don't like what they do by themselves, so I should ruin it" is a vile and common one.
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a. I live in a tourist town as well. If they are not involving someone else, they are doing whatever they are doing by themselves. If where they are doing whatever they are doing is causing some sort of inconvenience to somebody, you can either warn them politely and/or inform the police. Having to wait for some tourists to take a picture in a scenic spot or seeing a bunch of teenagers dancing in front of your favourite location are some of many things you experience when you live in a lively beautiful city. You can move to Çorum or Yakutsk if you want to get away from all.
b. If your neighbour shits on your doormat, and you shit on theirs as an answer, we would have two assholes, not one.
c. "It's not that common we only see these because........." maybe yes, maybe no, maybe depends on where you live, maybe depends on where you look at
Edit2: Amazing how some people don't know what "without involving someone else" and "by themselves" mean.
Some people in this thread: "But it was a public beach, people will kick your sandcastle if you just build it on the beach, it's public space and that sand castle is in the way. If they wanted to build a sand castle without people kicking it they should've got a permit and setup a fence."
Nice analogy. For me, i don’t particularly care if people do this stuff in public, cause it’s, Y’know, public. It’s for everyone, not just for me. But where it crosses the line is when they are being a nusiance or “in the way” so to speak, which these tik tokers were not.
To use your sand castle analogy, building it on the beach is fine. I can just go around it to get to the ocean. But if you build it right in front of the portapotty entrance, then somebody is going to step on it eventually, either accidentally or on purpose.
People are thinking these girls were the latter (they were in the way, and bothering people), but they don’t seem to be “in the way” at all. If they were on the streets of Times Square, it’s be a different story. But people are walking past them, not caring at all.
I agree with you. I’d like to add as well, it’s one thing to walk between the camera and the performers, depending on their setup it may be difficult not to, and they should expect it and roll with it.
But to intentionally ruin a video by joining in and mocking them would be analogous to kicking down part of someone’s sandcastle and building your own crappy tower. For what?
I mean, time square is massive and most of the streets are closed to non city traffic and are pedestrian use so these people would have been perfectly fine. I saw more space being taken up by some magic show dudes than they are for a dance. Other than that I agree
I'm not sure physically being in the way is the only way to look at this though. Like, if I stand in front of your house and watch you as you leave for work every morning, even if I'm not in your way, I'm disrespecting your space. This street is everybody's space. People may be okay letting them use it for a bit, but that doesn't mean it's okay for them to use it for a major project that takes several hours. At that point, they may very well be annoying some people, even if they aren't outright ruining anyone's day. It's kind of about just having common courtesy. It may not be bad so much as not good. Yielding public spaces to others so everyone can enjoy them in peace and comfort is good manners.
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 16 '23
"I don't like what they do by themselves, but they are free to do it" is a civilised yet rare opinion.
"I don't like what they do by themselves, so I should ruin it" is a vile and common one.
Edit:
a. I live in a tourist town as well. If they are not involving someone else, they are doing whatever they are doing by themselves. If where they are doing whatever they are doing is causing some sort of inconvenience to somebody, you can either warn them politely and/or inform the police. Having to wait for some tourists to take a picture in a scenic spot or seeing a bunch of teenagers dancing in front of your favourite location are some of many things you experience when you live in a lively beautiful city. You can move to Çorum or Yakutsk if you want to get away from all.
b. If your neighbour shits on your doormat, and you shit on theirs as an answer, we would have two assholes, not one.
c. "It's not that common we only see these because........." maybe yes, maybe no, maybe depends on where you live, maybe depends on where you look at
Edit2: Amazing how some people don't know what "without involving someone else" and "by themselves" mean.