Today, I asked someone to please use headphones and immediately the word “rights” came to mind. Mind you, the person complied and he got to enjoy whatever media he was enjoying and I too enjoyed the quietness I set out to enjoy.
Did he have the right to listen to his programme out loud? Yes. Do I have the right to my quiet environment? Yes. But who was disadvantaging whom? This is similar to the 7-month getai gigs we suffer. At least they only happen once a year and end at latest 11pm.
Before I go further, please note that it is not a personal debate, but an in-principle argument.
If I were to also carry out my rights, then I can listen to my worship songs and stand-up comedy and full blast and mind you those are musical equivalents of soccer matches. That last for days - or as long as battery power lasts. And I can do it every day. Day-in, day-out. Nightly, too. Because worship songs: i love the living daylights out of them. Heck. I would shout my way through them and full-throat it down your virgin ear canals - believe me, I know how to not kill my vocals and worship songs? They’re good for you. Like vitamins to the soul.
However will that cause resentment and therefore disharmony? Yes, because other people did not ask for vitamins for the soul.
Ironic, since that was what had been caused by the out-loud programme-playing that had been played out-loud, day-in, day-out. To say something about it could likely have caused an “I have my rights” thinking.
Not wrong, not wrong at all. Rights to be had by all. Just that exercising those rights: is it necessary? Or is it simply assholery?
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