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  • This seems reasonable, but then at what point do we say “no” to making dedicated spaces because someone thought their rights are being infringed?

    Separate spaces for smoking are common. What about dedicated spaces where street music performers can perform and others where they can’t?

    What if someone doesn’t want to see tattoos? At what point do you say “your annoyance is unreasonable”? I mean surely this one is, but is there a guideline that separates this from playing loud music?

    A extreme case would be someone who wishes to make a space free of a certain race. Obviously this is ridiculous and bad, but I am seeking a guideline that can separate these unreasonable ones from the reasonable ones.




  • But some of these “rights” do contradict each other.

    For example, it may be reasonable to say “I want the freedom to walk through my city downtown without having to smell strong weed”, but at the same time it is just as reasonable to say “I want the freedom to smoke weed in my city downtown”. Those two rights conflict. They limit each other. You can’t have both without restrictions. Which one would you have?

    Smoking weed is just an example. You can replace it with “dressing provocatively” or even “dressing entirely naked” or it could be “playing loud unpleasant music in a popular street”.

    Each of those “restrict the right of others” but so does the reverse. Which right or freedom are we picking?