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Incessant honking is just another form of mass of mass ignorance. Whether it is spitting, throwing cigarette butts, stealing any small thing that isn't locked
by blunte 7y ago
Incessant honking is just another form of mass of mass ignorance.
Whether it is spitting, throwing cigarette butts, stealing any small thing that isn't locked down, or honking, the end result is that everyone's quality of life decreased - even the people doing the bad thing.
The ignorance is that anyone who took just a moment to think through the situation would realize that such actions do not help. But for some reason, large numbers of humans default to low level mental functioning whereby they spend most of their lives operating without rational thought.
- ipnon 7y agoIt's like the tragedy of the commons: I honk -> I arrive faster We all honk -> We all arrive slower How to change these problem behaviors en masse is still an open problem, as far as I know. The approach taken in the link by the Mumbai police, of introducing a negative feedback mechanism for the behavior, is a psychologically sound approach.