Dumb Ideologies wrote:Jebslund wrote:Expensive? I use a pair of $12 earphones I bought at fucking Walgreens and I can usually tune the surrounding noise out entirely.
As to sacrificing long-distance, can we also ban left-wingers, right-wingers, people who feel the need to constantly badger strangers for attention only to relate patently obvious "revelations" and ask questions a toddler could answer, people with stupid hairstyles, people who wear too much cologne/perfume, boisterous teens, idiots who feel their desire to recline trumps the person behind them's need for space, idiots who make it a point to belch/fart as loudly as possible, idiots who don't know how to properly cover their fucking mouths/noses when they cough/sneeze, and anyone anyone finds annoying from flights, too, or shall we simply accept that your fare for economy class does not include a guarantee that no one on the flight will annoy you and handle it like mature adults (that is to say, either deal with it or prepare for it.)?
You've found a solution that partly mitigates the problem for you. But if all must prepare that is effectively a 12 dollar tax on all the other passengers who need to prepare for this eventuality, and even at that price you admit that the solution is incompete and partial at blocking out the sound. The mature adult response, taking into account the welfare of all, would be to not take a child on to a flight. When other people don't act like mature adults (such as by bringing a child onto a flight) we need to challenge, criticize and encourage their punishment, otherwise bad behaviour will prevail. It is our duty as good citizens to strive against selfishness in such ways.
No, banning children from planes is not the mature adult response. Children need to go places, too (usually with their parents. ). The parents bought the tickets. It's public transportation. Either solve the issue of your own discomfort (earphones/headphone/earplugs), or shut up and deal with it. If you can't do either, why don't *YOU* use a private mode of transportation if it bothers you so much?