Texting while walking: Should it be banned?
In the aftermath of the fountain incident, a look at several states trying to make distracted walking illegal.
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I don't think that the government should be able to tell us everything that we can and can't do. I get most of the law and why the government made them, but sometimes they can just go to far. They should'nt be able to tell us if we can listen to music or text while walking. That's just going too far. Is'nt this supposed to be a free country?
Decisions and laws have to be made by our government because a lot of people have that "look out for No.1" attitude and think their stupid actions in public doesn't harm anyone. Example being, DUI, it's against the law and if we left it up to each individual we would have a lot more deaths than we do (and people still haven't learned). Texting while walking and driving are other prime examples where people feel they are doing no one any harm when in fact these stupid actions do cause deaths and.... More
Where does all this making us safe legislation go? Read Rash - a sci-fi book that takes such legislation to its logical and silly extreme. You can read it in a few hours.
Distracted people on cell phones is a good thing. This helps get rid of the people with stupid genetics. There should be a lot more people texting and walking in streets.
I've been texting while walking for years. I have yet to walk into anything, fall or get hit by a car. I learnt how to text and walk. Why should the stupidest people ruin it for the rest of us?
Forgive me for being calloused, but I have lost my patience with stupid people. Years ago when people wandered about aimlessly, not watching their surroundings, the saber toothed tigers would pounce and remove them from the gene pool so they could not reproduce. Now, society has formed so much security for them, they are multiplying like rodents. I do feel bad for the lady who fell in the fountain and was embarrassed by having a video placed on the net. She didn't deserve to be made a spectacle.... More
The only way to look to cool when working the phone. Also, just pulling into a corner and keeping low-voiced is also as dignified. Let's, at least, try and not LOOK shallow, eh?
Emit a 'zombie' when walking past one. They're holding up the concourse with their ambling. Airport zombies tend to frequent the corridors. If you can yell 'zombie' into the phone, it will help.
There is a name for those distracted people that get hurt-survival of the fittest. It is NOT ok for a government to tell us what we are or are not allowed to do while walking/biking/running or doing anything else we want to do. Hurt others on purpose-not ok. Hurting others because we are distracted has nothing to do with the phone and everything to do with decision making by the person. We should not be told how to act and what decisions to make by our government.
DT, the person texting, listening to music, and all other forms of electronic distraction are not only putting themselves in danger, they are also putting others in danger.Yes, a single person may fall into a fountain in a mall, but a single person may also walk straight into the path of an oncoming car, the driver of which swerves or slams on brakes to avoid hitting the pedestrian or bicyclist, causing an accident. The proposal is for the protection of everyone.
I don't understand why we should protect those in society that chose to allow themselves to be distracted in such a manner that is harmful to themselves. Banning electronic devises isn't the answer. You can't put the blame on electronics but yet the blame should fall to the person using such items.
Two people engrossed in conversation can be distracted but we would not seek to ban our friends from talking to us. We must adapt to some reasonable saftey rules.
A person who.... More
