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The European perspective is broadly to have the "freedom from", whereas the American one is the "freedom to". You've got the freedom to aquire an arsenal, I do
by avar 3y ago
The European perspective is broadly to have the "freedom from", whereas the American one is the "freedom to".
You've got the freedom to aquire an arsenal, I don't, but I prefer the freedom from other people gunning down my kids, which by extension limits the narrow personal freedoms of myself and others.
Likewise, the American perspective is to draw a hard line on "in public", the European one is more nuanced.
Yes, you can film your vlog without fear, but a random pedestrian in Berlin also has the freedom from being associated with your public vlog.
Therefore you have a responsibility to either get their permission to broadcast it, or to anonymize them.
A useful way to think about it is to shift your view from "can I do X?" to "will I bother anyone else by doing X?".
- caf 3y agoA useful way to think about it is to shift your view from "can I do X?" to "will I bother anyone else by doing X?". I don't think that's particularly useful, because the answer to the second is trivially Yes, regardless of the value of X.
- ux-app 3y ago>the answer to the second is trivially Yes, regardless of the value of X then don't do it?
- filoleg 3y agoYour response to "by that metric, essentially almost everything is disallowed" is "well yeah, just don't do it". I don't think that stance would sit well with most.
- hutzlibu 3y agoThere are still many people bothered by the fact, that I as a men have long hair. I am sorry to dissapoint you and those people, but for now I keep my hair. You cannot please everyone and I think it is a path into madness to even try it. There are maaany things people feel bothered about …
- avar 3y agoAre you suggesting that someone could shut down all human activity on the European continent by declaring that everything bothers them?
- tremon 3y agoThere is a lot of leeway to be had between "will I bother anyone else by doing X" and "will anyone else be bothered by me doing X": it's active interference versus passive objection-taking. Socially aware people can learn the difference.