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Excessively loud noise in residential areas is banned because it releases hormones that make you feel bad. Although there's less room for such a ban to go wrong
by hackerlight 4y ago
Excessively loud noise in residential areas is banned because it releases hormones that make you feel bad. Although there's less room for such a ban to go wrong, obviously.
I agree that the label "violence" is manipulative. Using the label "harm" instead would be more accurate.
- WalterBright 4y agoExcessive loud noise is not an example of free speech. It also does physically damage one, like damaging your hearing.
- hackerlight 4y agoI know it isn't. I'm saying there's precedent for things being banned merely because of a stress response. And the kinds of noise that get banned aren't just ones that damage your hearing.
- filoleg 4y agoPhysical hearing damage is something I would hardly refer to as just "stress response".
- hackerlight 4y agoAnd I just said it is not only sounds that damage hearing that are banned. If I am stomping on my floor for six hours straight and propagating noise pollution to my downstairs neighbor, I am getting a police visit. No hearing damage perpetrated.
- WalterBright 4y agoThat's not free speech, either.
- hackerlight 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32414380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32414380
- nobody9999 4y ago>Excessively loud noise in residential areas is banned because it releases hormones that make you feel bad. Although there's less room for such a ban to go wrong, obviously. "Excessively" loud noise in residential areas is banned for a bunch of reasons, none of which have anything to do with hormones: 1. It's annoying and disruptive to the residents of the area. No hormones required; 2. It's often selectively applied to harass members of less-favored groups, to make them uncomfortable living in that area with the hope that they'll move out.
- hackerlight 4y ago1. "annoying and disruptive" is just cortisol, adrenaline and so on. It's the health damaging physiological stress response that's the reason for the ban. 2. It's banned regardless of who it is targeting.
- nobody9999 4y ago>1. "annoying and disruptive" is just cortisol, adrenaline and so on. It's the health damaging physiological stress response that's the reason for the ban. You're retconning[0] here. Many (most?) noise regulations were implemented before anyone other than endocrinologists and a few neuroscientists (and many before even that) knew that cortisol even existed. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity
- hackerlight 4y agoI assume that those regulations are in place because of the stress response that victims feel. Isn't it besides the point whether or not they knew about how that stress response was generated in the body?
- nobody9999 4y ago>Isn't it besides the point whether or not they knew about how that stress response was generated in the body? No.