OK, some random thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time for me to go to war \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcon these assholes, acting all tough in their cars, asshole smokers in public etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is where ChatGPT really shines; its ability to quickly navigate thousands of pages of legal law, to find city ordinances, and laws in regards to smoking, smoking in public areas etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, to evoke NASSIM TALEB, skin in the game, the general ethical idea is that laws are feeble, ethics are robust. It is very easy to gain legal laws, city ordinances etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 typically for profit. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyways, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot about the ethics or the politics of smoking; first and foremost, I grew up, with my dad being a very very heavy smoker, and I think cigarette smoke might be one of my most hated things on the planet. I hate it 1 trillion times more than even politics. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the primary ethical issue here is that it is nonconsensual exposure. For example, if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m out walking in public, walking in the streets, by myself or with Seneca\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I do not want to smell any secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What some of these assholes try to do is that they tried to smoke in a corner, or really far away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Not thinking that in fact, secondhand smoke especially if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re downwind from it, could almost travel up to one or two city blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that I am the king of Culver City, the primary issue here is that whenever I randomly see people smoking on the sidewalk, crossing the street, in a corner, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc at the intersection of a public street, etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Sometimes I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t act quickly enough, or say anything quickly enough, because I think to myself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWell — \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc it seems like I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be exposed to their smoke because they seem far away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Or maybe the wind is blowing the opposite direction?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
But then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 When I walked down a block or two\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And I instantly smelled the smoke, I immediately get a headache, feel pain and become infuriated\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And I am not willing to backtrack a block, once again smelling the secondhand smoke again, to tell them to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anti smoking rampage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
OK, if you want to smoke in the comfort of your own home, inside your bedroom, give yourself cancer etc– so be it,,, but, the second you step outside your home, there becomes some ethical dilemmas for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even a new new one; there are no robust laws which prevent people from smoking in their outdoor patio in multi level apartment complexes etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because let us say that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re addicted to smoking cigarettes, or even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re addicted to smoking marijuana, do you think that your secondhand smoke when you smoke on your patio doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affect others\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even another nuance; when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out in public, driving your car, and smoking with your windows down, assuming that I have my windows down, your secondhand smoke could come into my car!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do is just roll up the windows and turn on the air conditioning, because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to pick a fight. But then again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If I prefer to have my windows down, to get a fresh breeze, and your smoking with your windows down\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Why should I have to roll up my windows, because you are polluting the communal air?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it worth it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I think for a very very long time, I would just take it, I would just take it up the ass like a ventriloquist (Ye). But now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Now that I have Seneca, a young child, things change. Both when I am actually with him, walking with him in public, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also, when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just by myself\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think, to evoke children is unethical. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc For example, to tell these asshole smokers in public to not smoke cigarettes because there are children around, or that it is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad for the kids\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is typically poor manners. Why? Because if you think it from the kids perspective\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Technically you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re blaming the kids\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Or the kids end up feeling guilty and culpable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously smoking is bad for kids, secondhand smoke is bad for kids\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But these asshole smokers do it anyway, thinking that they could get away with it, or thinking that they are far enough that they are not harming anyone. But once again, the laws of physics and the wind, Even here in Culver City, because we are relatively close to Venice and the beach, we actually get a really nice breeze! And especially when you are in public areas, if I could smell the smell of smoke, I perk up like a wolf immediately, or even marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a coward<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If something is ethically wrong in the pit of your soul, you must stand up, speak out, even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the asshole, even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the bully, even if you are the unreasonable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I think all smokers secretly know what they are doing is bad and shameful. And they should. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcYet,,, once again, the average citizen never says anything, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think that Angelino\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s are a bunch of cowards and pussies. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc The problem with the modern day American man is that he is a passive aggressive coward, who never says something to your face, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc but instead, bitches and moans in private, on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or complaints to friends and family and other people behind closed doors over dinner conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just gonna think that I am a navy seal officer, I am a ranger, Delta force, that I am the mayor, the Supreme Court judge, the CHP, the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WE are taught all the stuff in k-12 education about Rosa Parks, refusing to stand up at the back of the bus whatever, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcbut why is it that the modern day man is so cowardly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man vs woman?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I found out recently\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m actually really good at yelling at other men, and being an asshole to other men\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But when I see women who are as asshole drivers, who honk at me from behind for not moving half a millisecond forward, or even worse\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 when I was in a parking lot complex, and some asshole lady in a AMG wagon honk at me from behind because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m simply trying to find a parking spot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Or even the other day I saw a lady smoking cigarette while crossing the public sidewalk street, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why do I hesitate to tell off women?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I suppose the issues here is that men are taught to treat women with more respect, to not be aggressive towards women etc. Typically I think this is good, but once again, when it comes to the public good, like smoking, or the public roads\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This should not be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc> Zero tolerance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every day politics of every day life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
People often talk about \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc politics in the realm of the ephemeral digital world, of Donald Trump and international politics and international politics in the light. I find this very cowardly and superficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is more critical here is to talk about politics every day life. For example, once again, face-to-face, flesh to flesh human interactions.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think the reason why people are such assholes wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come to cars is this asymmetry of power;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When somebody honk at you from behind, you cannot honk back because your horn is facing forward, there is no such thing as a backwards facing horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A simple suggestion could be installing a horn on your trunk which faces the opposite way, in which if some asshole honks at you from behind, you could honk back. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the purpose of a horn?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Every automobile car is legally required to have a horn, and the purpose of a horn in a car is to prevent potential accidents. You only honk when it is a life or death situation, or when there might be an incoming accident. The purpose of a horn or to honk at somebody isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to tell them to hurry up when they are not moving in traffic. Simple suggestions; if a car in front of you is not moving, even when the light turns green\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Just wait a few seconds! Who knows if that person simply has a kid in the car seat behind them, and the kid is asking them for food or something!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, those stickers that say kid on board is useful\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But aesthetically I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to put that sticker on the back of my automobile, because I find it unaesthetic. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc But once again, there is an asymmetry here in which if somebody behind you doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that you have a kid on board, they might be more likely to be an asshole, but most people lack them or the knowledge that there are some people who drive cars who have kids on board, And therefore, when people aggressively drive behind you, cut you off without turning on their signal, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think that we have to educate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you observe dangerous behavior on the road, a simple thing you could do is highbeam them, either you could blink it twice, or just go behind them and blast your highbeams at full at them, to inform them that they did something wrong. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc I personally do not believe in honking, because even I am sensitive to the sound of honking even if the honking is coming from my car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps a simple weapon that we could put on our cars are those really really extremely bright LED high beams, you could just get them on Amazon for 30 bucks. And they are so bright that even in the Los Angeles sunlight, it reaches the eyeballs of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Road rage is passive aggressive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The primary issue with road rage, is that it is passive aggressive. Let us realize that when you are driving a car, and you get road rage or aggressive on the road, you have a 3000 pound silver bullet. Not only can you kill yourself and your passengers on board, you could also kill other people on the road, their kids etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again, the false ethical thought that people have in regards to these crazy drivers is that they could kill themselves. But once again if they are driving on a public road, and there is at least one or two other cars around them\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In theory they could cause a multi car accident, which could indirectly or directly harm you and your kid on board! This is starting to get so bad that I am even considering that by the time Seneca gets into school\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Getting a part-time job as a California highway police officer, to start to serve justice,? Or at least become accredited to become a cop? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc well at least become some sort of petty officer, or reserve officer somewhere in the American military? To At least get some sort of higher clearance, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc or authority, or badge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think about it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you were a California highway police officer, or even a cop, in your driving around in a cop car with some asshole honk at you from behind to hurry up? No! They will not dare to. So what makes these assholes think that they could bully the average civilian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another random solution I have is installing those super bright LED light bars, in the back of your car, to prevent assholes from tailgating you, or as a form of punishment you could just turn them on the second that people start honking at you from behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A random thought; you had one of those massive lifted trucks, a cyber truck, or a car that has spikes from behind, or some car that looks beautiful\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Would it prevent people from tailgate, or honking at you like an asshole? Uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTANK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcCertainly if you drove a tank on the streets, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcpeople would probably not honk at you from behind to hurry up. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcAnd also, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re walking around town with your 60 pound weight vest on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re kind of look like SWAT team, and I found that when people are on the streets and they see you with your 60 pound weight vest on, they either assume that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re security, or that you have a bomb strapped to your chest. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regardless, when I do have my 60 pound weight vest strapped to my chest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It does make me feel tougher, stronger, more confident more brazen, and when I tell people off\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I feel zero hesitation. Why? Two things, first, if I have my 60 pound weight vest on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It might be able to Prevent penetration even from a Glock pistol? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even I was chatting with a Culver City police officer, LAPD officer, and even they saw me with my weight vest and was impressed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And they told me that their bulletproof vest was around 20 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, I would certainly probably win in a fistfight, because I think anybody if they attempted to punch me with my weight vest on, they would definitely fracture their hand or fist. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I suppose the difficulty is that it is easier for me to wear my 60 pound weight vest, walking around town by myself, but it becomes a little bit more difficult when I am with Seneca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No more passive aggressive, only aggressive aggressive. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
One of the great things about being Culver City, is that I really do have a strong sense of ownership here, I feel like a valued member of the community, I know everybody here, and I suppose when I am the greater Los Angeles area, I might be a little bit more hesitant to tell people in public not to smoke whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But certainly here in Culver City I have zero qualms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again with these asshole smokers, the cowardly thing to do is when you see somebody smoking in public is to simply take you and your kid, and try to go away. The problem is even when you are trying to retreat or run away from the smoker, The draft from a block or two down from there smoking your lungs, and the lungs of your kid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will they return?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Another thought: typically, if you see somebody smoking somewhere, they typically have their pre-designated smoking spots. What they do is they always come back to a certain spot, typically in a public place, and then they indignantly light up their cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I suppose the benefit of telling somebody off, to not smoke in public, or telling them not to smoke in our city, is that you might prevent them from future smoking in public, and I wonder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 How much of trying to stop assholes from smoking in public has to deal with you versus other people their kids etc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing; I love kids! I love all kids! All kids are pure, genuine, sweet, and adorable. Becoming a new father, I do sense and feel \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc I general sense of well-being, and affection for all kids, regardless whether they are mine or not. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not not sure why, it is just kind of like a gut feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So certainly I do not want other random kids to get secondhand smoking or cancer or lung exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assuming that we humans are altruistic, and we care for the well-being of others, even other kids who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t belong to us, if you really did care about humanity the human race altruism\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Maybe you should say something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cars on the road?\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Certainly trying to tell off every single human being on the planet or in Los Angeles to drive better is not really sustainable. Let us say that you are one human being, and there is 100,000 asshole drivers on the road, you cannot correct everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, you could create one person, or two people, or three people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This is enough to make a change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEK<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, some random thoughts: Time for me to go to war \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcon these assholes, acting all tough in their cars, asshole smokers in public etc. Nonconsensual exposure Here is where ChatGPT really shines; its \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626231,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626230\/revisions\/626231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}