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>>And what about the guy who has bad burns healing and perfumes to cover the stench??? I worked with a fellow who had bad burns and they did dtink and he was asked to do something about it or stay home. He used some scent that was much more pleasant than the stench of burned ointmented recovering skin.
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>Why didn't he stay home? After all it was HE that had the problem, not the rest of the office.

I guess he needed the money. A lot of people do. Maybe his recovery had given him cabin fever already and he craved interaction with others. I don't know. The important thing is that the situation got resolved because the issue was raised and discussed and all without cops.

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>>There you go again, accusing me of self-centeredness when it is you who is the culprit. And, again, eating stinky burgers or overdosing on perfume or playing music loud in earphones are NOT AGAINST THE LAW. So don't be accusing me when it was me who said the offended person ought to take some responsibility for correcting the situation rather than relying on cops to do it. You would have the cops so busy with miniscule crap that robberies/shootings/speeding deaths/etc would all go way up. But at least you wopuldn't have no stinky burger to put up with.
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>I repeat, if they were against the law, I would not ask cops to start their day looking for people playing loud music, but if one were there and it was happening, then he/she should intervene. As you point out, it is not against the law, but if you honestly believe that the growing discourtesy that people show each other in our society does not lead to a devolution of society, then on that we are miles apart.

You want a law for everything that displeases YOU.
I believe the situation is getting worse by the minute, frankly. But your is no solution.
I mentioned that schools are out of control, with kids able to swear/hit/mouth-off to teachers with virtually no repercussions. My thought is that home and school would be damned good places to start. Rather than feeling guilty about being out of the home working and so defending child's bad actions at schools, parents ought to back teachers up and authorize them to so real discipline. The last thing we need is more laws to cover peoples silly behaviours.
1. Take nutcases off the street and put them back into mental institutions. That way kids will be able to learn to socialize amongst each other in/around their neighbourhoods.
2. Give kids proper discipline at schools WITH THE COOPERATION OF PARENTS.

2 simple steps and no new laws and big progress towards reversing the problem of a degenerating society. Or, move to Singapore.