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It can be pretty risky to knock on a door to tell someone to keep it down. You have no idea how they might react. Knocking on random doors can be very unsafe in
by briandear 8y ago
It can be pretty risky to knock on a door to tell someone to keep it down. You have no idea how they might react. Knocking on random doors can be very unsafe in typical urban environments, unless it’s someone you already know.
- llamataboot 8y agoHaving spent a lot of my adult living in pretty impoverished urban environments, and having knocked on a lot of doors for both personal and professional reasons (as a neighbor, and as a social worker) - I think the risks are pretty overblown. Talk to your neighbors. Definitely talk to your neighbors instead of calling highly armed and confrontational people who can kill someone or toss them in a cage because of something affecting your quality of life.
- standardUser 8y agoI don't particularly want someone who has already proven themselves to be rude and inconsiderate to know my name, face and address. The kind of people who don't care about how their actions impact other people are precisely the kind of people I always strive to avoid - not get to know on a first name basis.
- rxhernandez 8y agoNot every culture is the same in what they consider rude; not every socioeconomic group is the same in what they consider rude; not every person is the same in what they consider rude. Consider talking to people and trying to understand them before you cast judgement on them. Cultural relativism really isn't that hard.
- standardUser 8y agoHonestly, I might if I think it's just women, but for crying out loud does anyone anywhere want to go confront any man about something like this? No one wants to go tell some big guy to stop begin an inconsiderate prick. And if his cultural background leads him to truly believe he is not being a prick, that just makes the situation FAR more frightening.
- c22 8y agoIf his cultural background is that no one in his culture has ever called him out for being inconsiderate I can see how he might make this mistake.
- tuxxy 8y agoThere really is no risk at all. This is such an unfounded fear. It's more risky to call a group of armed individuals with a violent history to go to your neighbor's door. Why would you ever put that sort of risk on your neighbor? The most important political relationships we can form are those with our neighbors, why would you damage those relationships by leveraging state aggression against them for something as trivial as a noise complaint?
- anbop 8y agoWith some of the worst neighbors I’ve had, the police killing them extrajudicially would be a positive outcome for me personally.
- unknownkadath 8y agoJesus, guy.
- bruceb 8y agoShould people talk more to their neighbors and try to hash things out? Sure. Personally I would very rarely ever call the police. But at least see the point of view of someone who might very legitably not feel comfortable knocking on someones door. A single person, with no family now has to run the risk of retribution with no help. Live with that fear everyday their neighbor might attack them directly or indirectly.
- Barrin92 8y agothis is the exact paranoia the creator of the thread was talking about. If knocking on a neighbours door causes anxiety we might as well all wrap ourselves in styrofoam and never leave our apartments.
- soulofmischief 8y agoI've spent time in very impoverished (aka high-crime) areas and never once did it occur to me to be scared of knocking on my neighbor's door. In fact, that's one of the first things I will do when moving into a new place, not only to socialize and build goodwill but to ascertain any potential threats and establish that I am not afraid to unload shells onto anyone breaking into my home. In the most ghetto of ghetto places, your neighbor is the only person you fuck with. Neighborhood gangs are no joke. Only in Whiteville, America are we afraid of our own neighbors. Decades of creating distrust in impoverished minority communities, and the government's still done a better job at keeping the affluent disunited than the poor.