Comment by nkrisc
24 days ago
No, because the noise of people just living life is not comparable to cigarette smoke. You can also use earplugs if you’re that sensitive to regular noises of people living around you. That kind of sensitivity is not normal though.
I can’t stop cigarette smoke from seeping in to everything in my home if I leave the windows open. Also, smoking is not a necessary part of life. You can’t live silently.
It’s not the same.
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> You can shut windows.
They could just not smoke, or smoke far away from the building where it won’t bother anyone.
> Where else do you think they are going to do it?
I don’t know, I’m not the one smoking. That’s their problem to solve.
I don’t think they’d like it if I left a bucket of rotting fish on my balcony.
> I don’t know, I’m not the one smoking. That’s their problem to solve.
It’s your problem not theirs. It bothers you, not them. They probably don’t even know it bothers you. Are you really surrounded by smokers and cannot open a window all day and night? Dude, let me tell you… you’re making your own life difficult. There are full buildings where smoking is forbidden. Make your own life easy, don’t harass others with your truths. If you don’t care why do you expect others to care.
> I don’t think they’d like it if I left a bucket of rotting fish on my balcony.
Are you comparing a cigarette smoke to full infestation?
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>They could just not smoke, or smoke far away from the building where it won’t bother anyone.
In the built up area I live in, you'd really struggle to find anywhere to smoke that doesn't risk bothering someone. That's city life.
> I don’t think they’d like it if I left a bucket of rotting fish on my balcony.
Yeah, they'd shut the window.
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Maybe if they spent less money on cigarettes they could afford other things.
Maybe. Go and ask them. Maybe they are truly awful people, maybe they are old or ill, or disabled. Go and talk to them, then start labelling them x and y. See? No one got the idea. All “you” want is that nobody bothers “you”. But thinking from the perspective of others? No, that’s too difficult. The best realisation I had in life was that I am pissing others off for some reasons, as they piss me off for some other reasons. Unfortunately the majority of the lovely “society” doesn’t have that realisation.
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