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Living in a state where everyone could be a backstabbing busybody you can't help but treat every interaction with suspicion. Like, I assume my neighbors are fi
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Living in a state where everyone could be a backstabbing busybody you can't help but treat every interaction with suspicion. Like, I assume my neighbors are fine people. I still would be totally unsurprised if one of them called the police because my wife screamed loudly or something.
- drusepth 8y agoShould your neighbors not call the police if they hear a woman screaming loudly?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThere's plenty of reasons to scream that don't necessitate a police call (the most common one seems to be "unexpected spider"). When you take the frequency of the various reasons to scream into account the chances that calling the police is a reasonable response to any particular instance is practically nil. Your attitude is exactly the problem I have with a lot of the people of my state.
- drusepth 8y agoThanks for explaining. This seems to be an expected value problem. If, indeed, there are many innocuous reasons for a loud scream (which I'm not convinced of) that may not need a police call, there are still some reasons that very much do need a police call. The inconvenience of dealing with the police in the former is dwarfed by the value of them showing up in the latter, in my opinion. I would 100% most definitely want my neighbors to call the police every time they hear any screams from my wife or I.