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>How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves? Blocking one's path for once, even more so with telescope sticks and of course
by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves?
Blocking one's path for once, even more so with telescope sticks and of course taking pictures with one in the background without consent. I live near one such touristic area where there's a rather narrow sidewalk. In the summer it is like running the gauntlet. I'm too often too nice by first letting people finish their posing and taking pictures, only that frequently even 5 selfies seem not enough because they didn't get that perfect angle right for the 'insta'.
- chrisseaton 4y agoThey’ve got as much right to be there as you do! > taking pictures with one in the background without consent They don’t need your consent!
- MichaelCollins 4y agoHow to make people like you: "The law doesn't forbid me from doing this to you!" Right up there with "I'm not touching you!"
- thaumasiotes 4y agoWell, yes. I'm not touching you right now. And if you're offended by that, you are being egregiously unreasonable. Exactly the same is true of the picture-taking "concern".
- ghaff 4y agoIt's one thing to shove a camera in someone's face. It's another for people to have any reasonable expectation of not getting into even the background of a photo when walking down a city street or in some other busy place.
- chrisseaton 4y agoYou’re not ‘doing’ anything to someone by taking a photo in public with them in the background. You don’t have reasonable expectations and it’s fine for reasonable people to disregard them.
- alistairSH 4y agoThey’ve got as much right to be there as you do! Can do vs Should do. Yes, you can stand in the middle of a narrow path and use a selfie stick to take photos. No, you shouldn't do that if it inconveniences everybody around you. Doing so anyways makes you a self-centered dickhead.