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Originally Posted by djforsberg
Lol, wow, life must be rough for you if you can get bent out of shape by someone arming their vehicle causing it to honk once because they never went through the process of disabling their horn just for you. Do you not find it ironic that you are calling Millennials entitled? By the way, there have always been groups of people who blast their music and modify their vehicles. They are called teenagers and young adults, not specific to any generation. Blaming barking dogs on Millennials is a new one. (If you are a parody account then consider yourself an expert because I bought it hook, line and sinker)
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What I do find amusing is how you say that I am "calling Millenials entitled" but then in the same post suggest that is is perfectly acceptable and reasonable to subject others to unnecessary noise pollution. Instead of explaining why you feel subjecting others to unnecessary noise pollution is justifiable, you launch into a mocking and dismissive
ad hominem argument while appearing to be entirely oblivious to its well-documented and very serious negative health effects. Such an argument meets the very definition of entitled.
There is no need for the horn to sound when "arming" a vehicle. It is purely inconsiderate and selfish on the part of the driver. The function can be disabled so that only the lights flash. Is that not sufficient?
I have been around long enough to know that people have played music loudly in their vehicles for many decades. The difference is that the amount of bass in the music and (due to technological limitations) the volumes were not nearly as high. And with respect to vehicle modification, this was problematic in decades past as well, but there was periodic enforcement at the very least. Yes, dogs have always barked, the difference was that in the recent past if one confronted a dog owner about the problem, the person was generally apologetic and made efforts to rectify the problem. Often, it was simply a case of not being aware that neighbours were being disturbed. More recently, the dog owners are more inclined to get defensive, self-righteous and even aggressive, even if their dog barks routinely and for lengths at a time in the late night or early morning hours. I will admit that this is a generalization, but this behaviour is rather typical amongst the generation being discussed, it would appear insulting to them almost to the point of affecting their security or self-esteem to be subject to any degree, no matter how slight, of criticism.
All of these anti-social behaviours are prohibited by various by-laws and provincial legislation. Let's start enforcing the laws. My personal experience is that Winnipeg is much louder than other cities, some much larger, that I have visited. Noise bylaw violations are tolerated here much more so than in other cities, for what reason I can not understand, particularly when this city has the highest number of law enforcement officers per capita of any city in the country. I do not think we are getting good value for money.
I'll preempt the nonsensical assertion that in an urban environment noise is a fact of life so it should be tolerated without complaint. Yes, indeed it is a part of urban life, but what is being referred to here is unnecessary and avoidable noise pollution.
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