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Not just policing. I've found that in USA, the society in general wants to meddle with people's business. Me and my buddy were standing on the sidewalk of a br
by powersnail 6y ago
Not just policing. I've found that in USA, the society in general wants to meddle with people's business.
Me and my buddy were standing on the sidewalk of a bridge, making a time lapse. Within one hour, someone called the police on us twice.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoHow can anyone possibly draw conclusions about the USA based on this? Like, really stop and think about all of the fallacies here. Do that 10 more times on 10 different bridges, and I’ll be shocked if that happens even one more time.
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- powersnail 6y agoMy bad. I was speaking in too general a tone. I should have said that my interaction with the US society has been that people tend to meddle with others' business more often than in other countries that I've been to. But, yeah, I have many more anecdotes.
- geargrinder 6y agoThere are many other countries where I have experienced more societal meddling with neighbors' business. Ignoring the obvious authoritarian countries, many western european countries have a culture of making sure you are doing the normal or right thing. Germany is the easiest example.
- naewonawonga 6y ago>> Do that 10 more times on 10 different bridges, and I’ll be shocked if that happens even one more time. Likely it would happen another 8-10 times. Happens all the time, the bigger the bridge, the more likely.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>I've found that in USA, the society in general wants to meddle with people's business. Get away from the wealthy areas on the coasts and "noneya business" quickly becomes the societal norm. Only places rich and population dense do the police have the spare shits to give about what other people are doing.