Basically I am talking about how we decide what is and is not allowed in public places. And how someone is always gonna be mad about what you allow/don't allow. The real example (because there was not really any info in the books I read about pig butchering in public, although it's probably out there) is from my old job. There were all these homeless dudes who would hang out outside the store, and would often heckle/panhandle/catcall people. On the one hand, yeah, it's a free country and there isn't a law that says you can't yell vulgar things at people. And beyond that, even a polite homeless person makes people uncomfortable, just by sitting/sleeping on a bench. On the other hand, those people they are heckling are being driven out of a public space (which they also have a right to be in). Maybe a better example is teenagers. Certain people are always going to be made uncomfortable by large groups of teenagers. But teenagers are people too, you can't just say "no groups of teenagers may sit on the benches in public."
Mostly the point of my paper is that pretending there's such a thing as a win-win scenario in this situation, or an objectively "fair" solution, is not going to accomplish anything. There are these multiple groups (protestors who want to occupy a park, people who want to play with their kids in the park, people who want to BBQ a whole pig in the park, homeless people who want to sleep in the park) and there is no way to make everybody happy. The park cannot have all of those things in it at the same time, and there will always be winners and losers.
The more I think about it, maybe butchering a pig or having a rowdy public protest is a better example. Some people are squeamish about protests or pig-slaughter but they are both things that need to happen somewhere, no matter how much they might involve squealing or unpleasant odors.
Yeesh, my thoughts are even less organized than I thought they were.
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